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...slipped by him. This week 27-year-old George Lanning publishes This Happy Rural Seat, a brilliant first novel in which he spins some subtle variations on the Jamesian theme of the unlived life. A onetime staff member of the highbrow Kenyan Review, Lanning shows a gift for creating complex human beings that marks him as one of the ablest new novelists in some time...
...realize the CRIMSON'S need for brevity. If brevity can not be combined with accuracy, it would perhaps be best not to feature articles on highly complex matters. Benjamin I. Schwartz Assistant Professor of Far Eastern History
...what went on inside the compressor of a jet engine. At the time the project was begun, this seemed like an impossible task. Jet engine compressors may have a dozen or so rotating "fans" and a dozen or so stationery ones. The air flow through the compressor is amazingly complex...
...Complex people who feel things are very ignorant, and really don't know anything: but nothing for simple people is more dangerous than ignorance." Cummings' thesis is that to feel is to be alive: "art is the something immeasurable of every man, woman and child...
Meanwhile, for Cantelli, there is the unmistakable satisfaction of working with a variety of fine orchestras. "Each is different," he says. "Each is delicate and complex." Wherever he goes, Cantelli selects his own programs and begins studying scores far ahead-he is working now on a score he will not conduct until 1955. "I think about a score, sing it, hum it. After many months it surrounds me. When I begin to conduct, I feel as if I had conducted this score before...