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...ROTHSCHILDS (305 pp.)-Frederic Morton-Atheneum...
...Author Morton meshes the Rothschilds' sense of style with his own sense of theater. There is often too much jangling modern slang ("chicken feed," "throw" a dinner). But there is also an ability to turn a phrase, and in its storybook fashion this is a lively, well-told story...
...Author Morton comes off best with the English branch, it is perhaps because they come off best themselves. A Rothschild was the first Jew in the Commons, a Rothschild was the first Jew in the Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money...
About 600 Penn students attended an open discussion of the suspension this afternoon. The discussion led to no real conclusions, but did produce the following statement by Morton Keller, assistant professor of History: "I have found the Daily Pennsylvanian to be poorly written with grammatical errors. But it was a consistently vital and vigorous paper even in its mistakes...
...music did not demand the concentration essential to divining the deepest beauty in other romantics, say Bruckner or Wagner; its sound initially excited me because of its claim to deepness, but then left me unmoved because it never sketched out a subtle emotional message. When the announcer said that Morton Feldman's Piano (Three Hands) was "infinite personal experience," he parodied just that pretentiousness of style...