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...Said he: "Most of my friends are writers and artists and all of them are neurotic as hell. We decided there was a need for a magazine to explore the problems of the neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido the wife lets the husband chase her around...
Clee Club and Choral Society singers will join tonight at Sanders Theater in the Annual Sanders Concert under the baton of conductor G. Wallace Woodworth '24. The 200-voice group will perform two works by Handel and two by Randall Thompson...
...packed Prague's National Theater. At the concert's end, Czechs and Germans began applauding. After a while the Germans stopped; the Czechs went on clapping stolidly - not cheering, just beating their hands together as if they would never stop. The Germans looked baffled and angry. Finally, Conductor Vaclav Talich held up the score, kissed it and, with an expansive gesture, presented it to the audience. It was Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country}, a cycle of symphonic poems breathing Czech patriotism; its last section tells of a glorious Czech liberation...
...Conductor Talich's dismissal was a measure of public order as natural for a Communist as it would be for a New York cop to take a pistol out of a maniac's hands. Once in power, the Communist de fines crime as whatever may undermine him; he wants to stamp out "crime" be fore it has been committed. This kind of preventive policing is more concerned with thoughts, attitudes, feelings, than it is with overt acts...
...that something was about to go wrong. Robert Casadesus has played 100 times in Manhattan. But last week he had a special worry on his mind. This was the first time the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra had ever played one of his own pieces. Only when white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski got the orchestra safely through the opening bars did Composer Casadesus turn back to the keyboard and seem to relax, as he gave Manhattan its first hearing of his third Concerto for Piano and Orchestra...