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By its own admission, U.S. television is committed to the seemingly impossible task of pleasing everybody. Last week the industry came closer to the mark than usual, with a bumper assortment of parades, pageants, period pieces and political themes.
Several other essays, particularly those by Gerald Brenan, Denis de Rougemont, and Cyril Connolly, show real excellence, and all of the remaining six make worthwhile reading. They display a pleasing lack of immediacy, and at the same time avoid irrelevancy. What's more, The Anchor Review will fit into your...
Some of the poetry suffers from the same kind of theme-forcing. There is a fine line between a world that is fully expressive of theme in sound and overtone, and a word that is just oppressive. Too often there are words of the oppressive varsity in the poetry. For...
Britain had promised to double its contribution (to nearly $20 million). Hollister had news even more pleasing to the Asian ear. Proposing that the Colombo powers set up an atomic energy research and training center, he announced that the U.S. is ready to give a nuclear research reactor and, later...
Composer Walton built his score "word by word, bar by bar," and the structure came out sound as the Trojan Horse. The orchestra makes a luxurious sound, with plenty of pleasing details such as the soft zips on the xylophone that punctuate an Act II party scene. The vocal melody...