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...that and hover with despairing trills and tremulos through long, stirring passages of static progression. The brutality of the quartet's chords and textures is not only searing but tormented: their writhing raises questions quite beyond Moevs's solid ideas. To call this powerful expression "romantic" is meaningless; only the term introspection recognizes the heaviness of the music's human implications...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Claremont Quartet | 4/14/1962 | See Source »

...showed no sign of regret at abandoning the moneyed and meaningless roles Hollywood had assigned her, knowing with sure instinct that such parts would never be right for a girl born to the tumbling poverty of Italy's back streets. Says one director: "Sophia is perhaps the only movie star who has never forgotten where she came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Much Woman | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...same time, Trottenberg attacked as "utterly meaningless" a Winthrop House proposal that the University consider combining room, board and tuition charges into one sum which could not be raised more than once every four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room Rent Issue Causes Dispute | 3/29/1962 | See Source »

...Wanderhope rejects the comforts of belief and accepts the final existentialist absurdity-that man must abandon the search for his meaning in a meaningless world. With this, he musters the bitter courage to return to a life he can neither bear nor depart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lessons from the Dead | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Hara's latest work, Assembly, is another colossal waste of talent. For years, we have waited for O'Hara to live up to the considerable promise he showed in Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8; but, with an occasional exception, he has been content to turn out slick, meaningless potboilers...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: O'Hara's Aimless Stories | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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