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...controls on the press, the labor unions and the universities-or face a military coup. There were signs last week that the hard-liners had summoned up the fading Falange to battle a new target: the "technocrats." These are mostly members of the secretive but apolitical Catholic lay organization Opus Dei, whose adherents control much of Spain's commerce and communications...
Then of a sudden he was speaking of Beethoven, and of a sudden I realized that he was speaking of that andante cantabile, the slow movement of the B-flat Trio [Opus 97]. He stopped speaking and began to sing. It was as though the composer, impatient of words, had found speech an impertinence in the presence of such music. The conversation ceased while he sang the theme through to its end. Then he resumed...
...Last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall was typical, as the pair embarked on the first of two joint recitals of all of Beethoven's music for cello and piano. With a quick glance at each other, they launched into the brief unison opening of the Sonata, Opus...
...contrary, Watson. Not impudent enough. For me, the mystery contained in this opus has but one satisfactory solution. A 7% solution...
Samuel French Morse was the editor of Opus Posthumous, Wallace Stevens' uncollected works. He also edited the only paperback anthology of Stevens available in this country, and his biography of Stevens was authorized by the widow and daughter of the poet after his death in 1955. As long as ten years ago Frank Kermode was eagerly anticipating the Morse biography in the first paragraph of his book on Stevens. Now Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life has been published, and it probably rasies more questions than it answers...