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...paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective argument against evolution was the heavy hint that advocacy of "neo-Darwinism" made a German politically suspect...
...composer, Virgil Thomson helped invent Neo-Romanticism, which is described in the current Modern Music as "a melodious simplicity, accepting all the known tricks of the trade, with a friendly nod to dissonance or any other musical Nance...
Last autumn Neo-Romanticist Thomson became musicritic of the New York Herald Tribune. Since then the musical intelligence in that paper-often dictated by Mr. Thomson in his dressing gown (camel's hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails...
...through the fabric of ritualistic lament. Emotion breaks through more strongly in a far more conventional piece, however, the Elegy of Dr. Arne, from the Apollonian Harmony of 1790. A memorial tribute to a friend, the Elegy was written to a pastoral poem by John Gay, which rocks with neo-classic artificialities. Yet despite the artificialities in the poem, and occasional artificialities in the music, the simplicity and sincerity of feeling rise as a whole above artificiality, and create a minor masterpiece. Representing the modern era, Gustav Holst's Dirge for Two Veterans is included...
Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...