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Steel intersperses narrative with Lippmann's articles and opinions through the onset of the Depression and Roosevelt's rise. Sometimes the journalist remained on the sidelines and patiently observed. But, more often--as in the late '20s when Lippmann and Ambassador Dwight Morrow mediated a dispute between American oil companies, the Catholic Church and a hostile Mexican government--Steel finds the journalist in the thick of the action...
...REBECCA by Ken Follett; Morrow 381 pages...
...Lance Morrow...
...surprise of the evening is Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until To morrow), a one-act comic opera being given its U.S. stage premiere. Schoenberg had consolidated his epochal twelve-tone system by 1923, supplanting the traditional seven-note scale with all twelve chromatic tones, which, in various intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism...
NONFICTION: A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, Richard Perceval Graves ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh