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...Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper and bits of old fur. But the whole makes a composition and the composition speaks." Thomson freely acknowledges that concerts were often the merest excuses for mounting one of his numerous musical soapboxes. No critic catnapped more frequently in his seat, and the Trib's critic was famed for writing some of his most thoughtful review...
Simple Stone. That night, while Moscow slept, a motorcade of Jeeps, troop carriers and armored cars sped into floodlit Red Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
...while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total effect of Author Calisher's novel is like sipping gallons of weak, mandarin-style tea from a fur-lined...
...Fur-Lined Domesticity." The marriage part of this twin-goal life seems to be no trick at all. Largely as a consequence of better nutrition, girls mature earlier than ever; the average age of puberty has dropped by 1½ years since 1940. The average American woman marries at 20. Once the married college girl was a bit of a freak, perhaps the wife of a war veteran back to finish his education, or perhaps even trying to keep her marriage a secret. Now the campus marriage is increasingly common; last year at the University of California, for example...
...satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...