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Bruckner represents Vienna to the longhair almost as fully as Johann Strauss does to the waltzer. An organist-teacher who knew and idolized Richard Wagner,* Bruckner was remarkably prolific (eleven symphonies) but never won wide popularity, has only a handful of dedicated champions in the U.S. His critics feel that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising with the Viennese | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Salomon did take advantage of radio's ability to switch scenes with a simple moment of silence. But his writing was usually the "tell them, don't show" type which never allows the listener to really get to know the characters. Instead, the narrator is constantly saying what the characters...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Mateo Falcone | 11/14/1956 | See Source »

To walk and talk with great men was as much an everyday thing to Lamb as rubbing shoulders with the demons of insanity. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written "what he calls a vision, Kubla Khan," it was to Lamb that he read this great poem aloud-"so enchantingly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gum Boil & Toothache | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

A Sword & a Caress. Few rate the Callas voice as opera's sweetest or most beautiful. It has its ravishing moments. In quiet passages, it warms and caresses the air. In ensembles, it cuts through the other voices like a Damascus blade, clean and strong. But after the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Prima Donna | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Outright warfare between the American Medical Association and the networks over "quack M.D.s" ended three years ago, but there have been brief skirmishes ever since. Under the terms of a 1953 code drawn up between the A.M.A. and the National Association of Radio and TV Broadcasters, any commercial featuring a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Medicine Show | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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