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...word which musical Manhattan has dreaded all winter was finally spoken last week: This season will be Arturo Toscanini's last as conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony, will mark the end of performances which have come nearest to perfection in present-day U. S. music. "With great regret," the Philharmonic directors made the announcement, adding: "After half a century of continuous conducting, the Maestro feels the necessity for a release from the great responsibility of presiding as musical director over a permanent orchestra...
...middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste at all to literary palates accustomed to present-day poetic diet. To ageing Poet Sassoon, even the War is now hardly more than a misty memory...
...poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered and made to listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, might fall asleep or get angry, but they would not understand more than a line or so in a dozen. Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows the modern fad of writing a subjective Sanskrit all his own. Ponderers of such puzzle-poetry as Kenneth Patchen's no longer hope to get more than an impression of the sense; they do not so much read...
...urged. Although the College favoured compulsory insurance, the national sentiment gave it fourth ranking--probably seeing in it another manifestation of the "tax" goblin. As was to be expected, both groups condemned marking of offender's cars, and "governors". The former bears with it the taint of Naziism, for present-day speedsters in Germany have their cars marked with a large yellow cross. The disapproval of the installation of "governors" on cars would seem an instance of the strong sporting spirit so prevalent among American motorists, whose driving creed might be "I'll take my medicine if they catch...
Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a delighted posterity, the present-day world can never take him with half the seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand diaries, on the other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years...