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Weygand had his men disposed flexibly in depth-the approved "accordion" pattern of defense against mechanized power. Behind the front line were carefully camouflaged batteries of anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop...
...many readers were offended by a sentence in this column which, without explanation, dismissed the Brahms symphonies as "academic exercises". What I meant by the statement is this: when one listens to a Tchaikowski symphony, such as the Fourth or Fifth, one follows easily and clearly the tonal pattern. Contrasting themes grow naturally out of each other, and there is a sense of inevitability about the working-out of material, a smooth flow and a feeling for clarity and balance. One gets none of this feeling from a symphony like the Brahms First. Here there is no free flow...
...night of May 9, a telephone call from big, indignant Ambassador John Cudahy in Brussels, who called President Roosevelt at the White House, got Secretary "Pa" Watson, and scooped all journalists with the flat statement that the Germans were marching in that night. Official Washington went through the pattern of crisis that eight months of war had made terrifyingly familiar...
Probably the common conception of Sibelius as half-man half-fjord is shaped also by the peculiar type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they...
MURDER IN SILENCE-George Selmark-Crime Club ($2). Quiet, orderly series of murders in the Old English pattern. Good bit: Dr. MacFarlane's home for drunks...