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Nonetheless, the idea of the only march on the program being one by Anton Bruckner is a typical Walkerism. A respect for music, musicianship, and monkey business--with the present emphasis on improving the second--is rapidly creating out of the clubby organization a real wind ensemble. Problems remain, but on the basis of the improvement over the previous concert, one can of the improvement over the previous concert, one can safely predict that, given time, Walker will surmount...
...Grammophon; 3 LPs). While most aficionados consider Violetta, or Sigmund, or even the sadistic Turandot a familiar acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled with bitter misery. Henze...
...coverage of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial, H. L. Mencken mercilessly shredded the arguments of Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan, who served as a special prosecutor against the teacher of Darwin's theory. Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham." Was such reporting an attempt to influence the outcome of the trial...
Under Louis XV, the grand gesture -that splendid self-expression of all royal stylists-degenerated so far that one royal prince built a marble mausoleum for a pet monkey named McCarthy. Similar distortions of value took place in more important aspects of public life. Diplomacy, once the French national art, so deteriorated that it came to fit the job description given by Beaumarchais, author of The Marriage of Figaro: "Spread spies, pension traitors, loosen seals, intercept letters...
...novel by Pierre Boulle (The Bridge on the River Kwai) about the conflict of man and monkey was a clever, abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as crude as "Human see, human do," "I never met an ape I didn't like" and "he was a gorilla to remember." At one point, three of the simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision...