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...standard. Now U.S. and British airmen see, as the Germans saw before them, that the idea of the all-purpose, all-altitude fighter is a wasteful fallacy. Result: aircraft already built and flying are assigned duties fitting their capabilities; new designs are shaped to specific predetermined functions, at high, medium and low altitudes. The Airacobra is built to operate at medium levels, i.e., 10,000 to 18,000 ft. But it can challenge any German fighter in height, except the new Me 109F, which is Spitfire meat...
...Romantic, lamenting a dying culture. The formal resemblance between Pierrot and Das Lied (they are both song cycles) goes deeper than mere coincidence. It links together in a fundamental way two works essentially decadent--where structural unity has been replaced by a series of separate emotional patterns, where the medium is over-refined, and the individual phrase, the passing subtlety, counts for more than the whole...
...composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured mercilessly, time after time baffling the listener's desire to discover in it any intelligible contours, whether harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic. But the Violin Concerto subdues the usually frigid and austere atonal system, and makes it the medium for an instantly moving masterpiece, one that will stand as a monument to a great composer who died before his time...
...Boston, the city of beginnings and endings, but of no long runs. The cast is obviously hand-picked, and it is hard to single out any actor for special mention since all were good. Mildred Natwick deserves extra praise for her superb portrayal of the elderly, but energetic, medium whose series of trances raise hob with the spiritual world. Leorora Corbett, as the product of one of these trances, plays the blithe spirit to perfection. The rest are also swell, even down to the maid, whose small part is a true Coward...
...also an experiment in communication: "an attempt to reproduce and analyze the actual." Its medium: 32 photographs by Walker Evans and a 471-page commentary by James Agee. Subject: the life of three Alabama cotton tenant families, with whom the authors spent several weeks (as "spies") in the summer...