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...Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also-one of his greatest. This, somewhat heavyhanded, is the only available recording...
There may be a few mechanical difficulties to overcome. Some lecturers prepare a full manuscript, while others speak very informally. In the latter case someone would have to take shorthand notes, but this would be permissible in a magazine frankly devoted to reproducing talks just as they are given. Informality would have to be the keynote of such a publication. Ranging over widely varied fields of interest, the choice of lectures should and could aim at popular consumption. As John Mason Brown has put it, they ought to "stand on their feet--not on their footnotes...
Stately, plump Dr. Gogarty landed in the U. S. last autumn with his pockets full of Queen's Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with...
Brandy flasks passed from hand to mouth in the bone-chilling rain. The hundreds of fresh pine benches were too wet to sit on, but drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...
Archibald MacLeish, former curator of the Nieman Collection and now Librarian of Congress, presented a manuscript copy of his volume, "The Hamlet of A. MacLeish," while Crown Prince Gustav Adolphus of Sweden as well as the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway presented books...