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...adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts?a profound background of intelligent scholarship...
There is nothing like putting one's best foot forward, and certainly this Yale Game Lampy does that with an excellent cover by Saunders. Picture, if you will, a Shakesperian gentleman of no small fame, standing with a canine skull in hand, background of blue clouds and what might be Dunsinane Castle but looks more like a stadium, --and the words in his mouth you have guessed by this time. "Alas Poor Y--!" All well done, but we doubt if we can agree that the rest of the number holds up to that standard...
...Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...
...colors. In her new book, to be called perhaps A Venetian Glass Nephew, she dwells partly in a realm of magic. She has made scholarly investigations so that her descriptions of the black art are accurately in tradition. She chooses as one of her characters the roguish Casanova?a background character only, I believe...
...doubted that Jesus had subscribed to the Messianic theory and hopes of the Jews. "If he did He was committed to something that has not happened, but it is more likely that this idea was read into His teachings by his disciples with their Jewish Old Testament ideas and background...