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Vainglorious Lout. Up & down the land from a thousand wagons and soapboxes her rich voice called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...
...Victorian Age, Red Plush is one of those placid novels that wallow in family trivia, delight in minor, certain-to-be-resolved family crises and snicker at family eccentrics. The family is accorded an existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were...
Commissar's Delight. Composer Khachaturian's music is the kind that goes over well with commissars-because it also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev...
...usual, the outward appearance of the magazine is a delight. Stuart Cary Welch has created another interesting and well-executed cover; the absence of his incidental drawings from the inside pages is to be regretted, but the general make-up remains as fine as ever. There is no point in criticizing criticism, but it is enough to say that what appears here is convincing and judicious. Despite its flaws, the magazine is still an expert job, containing provocative and at many times delightful reading...
...high spot of vocal gymnastics spoke most strongly for the Princeton Club. Barely any "falling apart" or less of unison accompanied the tricky arpeggios in Beethoven's "Oh, What Delight," the Prisoners Chorus from "Fidelio," "Maiden Fair" suffered from the basses and "My Lovely Celia" from the inarticulate delivery of the lyric...