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...books, tracts and essays fills 22 pages. In succession he wrote books about mathematical probability (1921), the gold standard and monetary reform (1923), and the causes of business cycles (1930); each of his works further developed his economic thinking. Then he bundled his major theories into his magnum opus, The General Theory, published in 1936. It is an uneven and ill-organized book, as difficult as Deuteronomy and open to almost as many interpretations. Yet for all its faults...
From his qualms about society, which were strengthened by the "world depression and the rise of Nazi terror," Niebuhr derived his basic theological belief in the sinfulness of man, developed in his magnum opus The Nature and Destiny of Man. But Niebuhr did not construct an either-or theology, one that views man as living either in sin or in grace. His is a both-and theology, one that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote...
HAYDN: QUARTETS, OPUS 54 (Westminster). The London-based Allegri String Quartet definitively explores three of the "Tost" quartets, all of which are characterized by the predominant role of the first violin, here brilliantly played by Eli Goren. In the C Major he tirelessly weaves a long garland of arpeggios and trills, then plunges into an adagio of exceptional beauty, tracing a hopeful obbligato above a deep-voiced Hungarian lament...
With 60,000 words already ghostwritten Michael Chaplin was suddenly having some second thoughts about the unfilial opus due out next month called I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn. Father Charlie had decided long ago that he didn't like the fumes of his beatnik boy either, but even with the family feud Michael was beginning to worry that Grass was a bit thick, asked a London High Court justice to suppress the book because it exploited "the piquancy of a situation where the son of a famous man is shown...
...have to read the books you take with you." One of his own favorite unopened authors is Toynbee. Rule No. 2 is that you don't have to finish anything. Indeed, half the charm of vacation bookmanship is in returning to the same unconquered magnum opus as if to Everest. A Madison Avenue executive back from Martha's Vineyard this month confessed that he had attacked Dante's Divine Comedy for the fifth straight year, only to bog down once again in the first canto. "But," he added bravely, "I'm getting sort of fond...