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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance to top off the work. The skill of both composer and performer were combined on this last to present a triumphal finale to an extremely difficult work and an interesting and successful concert...
...College will pass out more than $350,000 in scholarships during the academic year of 1948-49 to upperclassmen alone. To qualify for one of these scholarships, however, if often difficult...
...Search back as one may . . . there is no record of a comparable act of inspired and generous diplomacy. ... It will be difficult after this demonstration of international solidarity to go on repeating the old gibes about American isolationism, the old complacent references to American political immaturity. . ... In recent months the American public is rapidly qualifying for the title of the least isolationist and self-absorbed of peoples." The U.S. would have to go some to live up to that eulogy. But it was learning...
...poor cooperation. Clothiers, particularly women's dress manufacturers, refuse to face anthropometric facts. They persist in designing garments on "model forms" which have little resemblance to real female bodies. They assume that women will change their shapes with the shifting moods of fashion. It makes life pretty difficult, Mr. Lonie hinted, for a serious anthropometrist...
...acting and staging problems it presents are brutal. The episodic nature of the action, the impossibility of getting across where or when many of the play's 42 scenes take place, and the sublety of the great character-creations all make the staging of the piece tremendously difficult...