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...president must also pick up the few threads of Illinois' fame in the field of Art and Literature. Hallowed is the name of that conservative critic, the late great Stuart Pratt Sherman, and vital is the influence of Sculptor Lorado Taft, an alumnus, who is a non-resident professor...
Great last week was the tittle-tattle which floated about Manhattan concerning next year's Metropolitan Opera plans. A list of operas likely to be added to the repertoire was published by Edward Gushing (pseudonym: Suetonius Jr.), able critic and newsgatherer of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It included Massenet's Herodiade and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, operas in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will presumably have the leading roles; Strauss's Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger...
...Said the jury of awards: ". . . They are evolving a treatment of the skyscraper that makes the most of the inherent structural necessities of the building. . . . They make the most of great simple masses, and avoid the finicky decoration that distracts from the beauty possibilities of sheer structural necessity." Art Critic Royal Cortissoz describes their work as "vertiginous verticality...
...Significance. Says Critic Rebecca West: "Most of the words that James Joyce uses are pâtès de langue gras. Each is a paste of words that have been superimposed one on another and worked into a new word that shall be the lowest common multiple of them all. These words have been chosen out of innumerable languages, living and dead, either because of some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even...
...Critics. The reaction to Ulysses was immediate, decided. Said Critic (onetime U. S. now British) T. S. Eliot: "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." Said Critic-Author Virginia Woolf: "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe-immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique...