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JOSEPH Wood Krutch is doubly qualified to write this interesting and penetrating analysis of the development of our native drama in the past two decades; he is a professor of English at Columbia University and drama critic of "The Nation." In this latter capacity, he has long been known as one of the soundest and most intelligent critics practicing the craft...
...most effective, skillful briefs yet delivered for the Allied cause. It was the sort of talk which earns Britain a reputation for fair dealing and open-minded thinking. To keep its sprawling Empire together Britain needs that reputation as much as she needs her powerful Navy. As a Nazi critic once remarked, the "weakness" of Britain is that she can no longer survive without the moral approbation of the world. Today, in such widely separated capitals as Ankara, Buenos Aires, Rome and Stockholm, other British envoys besides Lothian are working just as hard to convince other nations that Britain...
...ideas that other bands never get near. Often the band will Improvise collectively in this same weird timbre--whereas most people think that their complicated style takes months of rehearsal on each thing. I could ramble on for pages about this bunch. Suffice it to say that practically every critic thinks they are the biggest and most important thing in jazz, and get ye down to the Southland to hear them. By the way, the Duke will be at Briggs and Briggs this afternoon at three thirty. Drop over and meet him--it's worth...
...year-old Dmitri Shostakovich climbed out again by writing this symphony in honor of the October Revolution's 20th anniversary (1937). The symphony, finest work to date by Soviet Russia's No. 1 TIME, January 8, 1940 composer, shows Joe Stalin to have been a sound music critic. In it, Composer Shostakovich leaves all clattering tricks behind, works fine melodies up into surging climaxes. Magnificently performed and recorded...
...Pettish critics have sometimes said that reading Jules Remains' serial novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned...