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...Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple...
Puzzled but persistent, a few elderly architects who still believed in tradition went to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week to listen to the first U. S. lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron...
...musicians ever had such a determined taskmaster as the lean, satanic-looking Austrian who has been the Wagner specialist at the Metropolitan since German opera was revived after the War. Last week Bodanzky admitted that Wagner operas sometimes bored him. "But, mind you, only when I think of them. . . . The minute I take up my stick in the opera house I become transported...
Aiken's central character is a decidedly different creation. He looks at himself in the mirror, admiring his lean, dark face, his masterful eyes. He sneaks into his friends' dwellings when they are not there and furtively reads diaries and personal mail. He leans out of the window of his apartment on Plympton Street and wants to kill an editor of the Crimson who is unobtrusively sunning himself on the roof. He artfully spins webs of deception around his acquaintances, lets them in part-way on his secret, laughs at their wholly average protestations...
...Dodges go to Princeton, the Jameses to Amherst, the Stokeses to Yale, where Father Anson Phelps Stokes was University secretary for 22 years and where Son Ike was a Phi Beta Kappa in the Class of 1929. Tall, lean, cerebral, humorless, Ike Stokes later went to Harvard Law School, graduating in time for James McCauley Landis to take him to Washington as his secretary for a year. Now 29, he works in the SEC law department which let him "ghost" temporarily for Commissioner Mathews...