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...Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer, he was sent...
...popular terms for what should correctly be called nuclear weapons"), all of which can enliven cocktail conversation at survival parties and make their employer appear very erudite. For obvious security reasons, certain other useful words and phrases were omitted. For example: Ja amerikanskij proletarij (I am an American proletarian), Da zdrstvuet krasnoye osvobozhdenye (Long live the red liberation), and tovarishch (comrade...
...mighty ha'd to giggle w'cn dey's nuffin' in da...
...know all the fingerings, the sounds and ranges of the instruments and how they combine"), his longest instrumental work thus far is a 27-minute Concert Piece for Chamber Orchestra, actually a four-movement chamber symphony. Among his other chamber successes: Seven Movements for Septet, Concerto da Camera for Violin and Chamber Ensemble. As interpreted by the Orchestra of America last week, Orchestral Abstractions was jagged in profile, strong in rhythm and color, the solo instruments, particularly the brasses in the last movement, in fascinating juxtaposition with a curtain of translucent strings. The effect suggested flashes of pigment seen through...
...other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry you he gotta da right be American citizen." Indignantly, the girl decides to marry the boy. At that the stevedore's obsession, like an elephant in musth, snaps the fraying tether of human feeling that restrains his frenzy. He betrays the boy and his brother to the immigration police. Too late the poor brute perceives...