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...Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according to his irrepressible wife last week, "would be good if he would only practice." Ormandy 's strongest test came with Schubert's Seventh Symphony which, though it left him dripping with perspiration, showed a surprising authority over the Stokowski players...
...transient love affairs, protest demonstrations, anti-war parades, strikes, arguments, psychoanalysis, unfinished novels and unwritten poems, of stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over...
...enduring reform came only from an enlightened sports of peaceable compromise and free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed of the very rich and the very poor, that the original government rested upon a very small base of the middle-class...
...relation to the rest of Europe and not at all with the government at Madrid. Spain is having no conventional uprising of the Latin-American variety; it is a revolution in the bloodiest and most violent sense of the word. Newspapermen Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard have assembled a background of Spanish history and recordel a series of facts that are essential to an understanding of the struggle in Spain today...
...essays do succeed admirably in suggesting the variety and the fruitfulness of the contacts between Harvard and French culture. Since an instrument of communication is the starting point for reciprocal knowledge, the history of the French language at Harvard, traced in considerable detail by Bernard Fay, forms an excellent background for the other essays. Professor Fay has utilized the Harvard College Archives to good advantage and tells an entertaining story of the vicissitudes of the French language as a branch of study at Harvard, from the first clandestine interest in the language spoken by Papists and arch-enemies...