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...soldier who achieved these things was born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than...
Sophocles told the story 2,000 years ago of (Edipus, the kindly King of Thebes, Fate's most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus...
...overlooked the divine spark within himself, the spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...
...know what fate history reserves for the Washington-London debt settlements during the next sixty years. What is certain is that no further sacrifice can be asked of the Italian nation than the giving up of the whole of her German reparations to paying off her War debts...
...subject of perennial attack, the American educational system, is assailed anew in a series of articles in the current New Republic, entitled "Adult Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process throughout...