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Up until last summer, when WBMS changed management, its history was written in red ink. The first year and a half had been glorious--from the listener's point of view. The station played good music, and lots of it. There were hour-long programs of symphonic works, virtually free...
Since the transaction, WBMS has gone toward the black--and, in the opinion of many of its listeners, gone downhill as well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial...
Richard Whorf, who plays Richard, gives the impression of an actor with intelligence and talent, and an apparently urgent need to relieve the kidneys. He whirrs through his lines at a speed that soon passes all understanding. Though each word is clearly pronounced, even telegraphed, the audience soon falls exhausted...
In the present case the forgiving listener was the Hon.* Bertrand Russell, 43-year-old lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30...
Invitation to a Voyage. The correspondence began amiably enough: after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in...