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After Mrs. Riddle's death in 1946, the trustees interviewed some 25 candidates for provost, found most of them reluctant to step into the pattern she had laid down for them. Then they hit on Pierpont. The new head, a University of Richmond graduate (he flunked out of Johns Hopkins), was a headmaster of the lower form at a Baltimore school, later bossed a World War II Navy school. The first time he saw Avon Old Farms, he said, "I felt as if I had walked into the middle of a Charles Addams cartoon...
...name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...
Speedy and rough Yale play outclassed the Varsity throughout the game, with the Blue leading 6 to 1 at the end of the first stanza. Harvard scored once in the second period to Yale's twice, and repeated that pattern in the abbreviated third frame...
...decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said: "Two hands are being offered you. Will you grasp the hand of capitalism or the hand...
Such is the content of Son of the Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...