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...Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
...hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...
...activities, and meets the expenses of upperclass elections. And with only five cents out of every dollar that you're going to contribute," he shook his bony finger in Vag's face, "the Council maintains itself. It is the only body democratically representing undergraduates like yourself. Its labors as critic and adviser to the administration, represented by dozens of surveys and reports, made possible that N.Y.A. job that keeps you in pocket-money this year...
Their officers had less pleasant things to think about. Before they left they had heard what was wrong with the Army-from the Army's severest critic and one of its best-informed: cave-eyed, earnest Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair. As he had the week before, he called the high-ranking officers of the Armies together, sat them down to listen. In the front row were the two Army commanders: bluff, burly Lieut. General Ben Lear of the Second, and stocky Lieut. General Walter Krueger of the Third. Next to them sat Lieut. General Delos Emmons, boss...
...amazingly charitable to ignorance, who was never too busy, even at the age of 81, to drop his own pressing tasks to answer questions (and when did he ever fall to know the answers?), to discuss scholarly or personal problems, to read bulky manuscripts with the eye of a critic and proof-reader and the heart of a friend...