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...have a freak memory," Cooper says. "I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." In his opus, Cooper recalls almost everything unimportant that happened in Sironia, a pseudonymous Texas town (Cooper has always lived in Waco) in the first 20 years of the century. He tells the important things too; but with the gift of the true gossip for pure indiscrimination he can tell about a rape in the same cozy tone he uses to describe a family evening at home -and, in Sironia, one seems to have been as common as the other...
...group actually played 84 quartets. The added work was composed about the time Haydn wrote his Quartet, Op. 1, No. 1. Schneider calls it "Opus Zero...
...rapine of his former masters and the physical possession of Caucasion virgins. If such a theme could cause riots fifty years after Reconstruction, there is no reason why it cannot, and does not, cause violent emotions today. At least the Solid South does not look upon Griffith's opus as a delightful historical pageant, but rather takes it as a credo and a profession of the White Man's Supremacy, and the need for that supremacy to assert itself--lest it all happen again. After recent "race" incidents in Detroit, St. Louis, Cicero, Cairo, Ill., and San Francisco, one should...
...sensible, just law out of the jumble of loopholes and restrictions that make up the United States' present immigration policy, it picked the wrong man to do it. Pat McCarran and his staff have labored mightily to produce three hundred and one pages of immigration law, but their magnum opus only worsens the present inequities by codifying them. The Senator from Nevada, the symbol of American immigration policy, is an unfriendly host indeed...
...other stories, The Flying Buffalo by Eric Wentworth and The Play's the Thing by Osborne, are not outstanding. Osborne's opus is particularly disappointing. It starts off in promising style with a good plot and snappy dialogue. Just about the middle of the story, however, Osborne's dialogue becomes clammy and his plot starts sliding down to a pulpish ending...