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Shostakovich was clearly determined to woo a large audience, and there was never much doubt that he would succeed. With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave. Said Izuestia: "Just as today we feel an involuntary envy for the contemporaries of Beethoven, Paganini and Tchaikovsky, so will future generations envy us who first heard the Twelfth Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century...
...Contrary to that of my own country," he sulked, "the West German press was bowled over by the reporting I've done on the Berlin situation." Sample rave, from Berlin's B.Z.: "Go back to the U.S., Mr. Jack Paar. We don't want to see you here any more...
...estranged wife, himself and, perhaps most pertinently, with modern civilization. The theme is what Lowry himself has dubbed "the migraine of alienation." Lush as a tropical jungle, the book alternates between fierce introspection and a hallucinatory evocation of the Mexican scene. When it was published in 1947, it received rave notices from serious critics but also made the lower rungs of bestsellerdom. Recently, it was brought out in Italy by Feltrinelli, the first publisher of Doctor Zhivago...
Home in London after her eleven-day tour of Italy, Queen Elizabeth was still getting rave notices from her recent hosts. Even Rome's leftist weekly, L'Espresso, found it "almost a miracle" that she remained composed during her "inhumanly crowded sojourn." Elizabeth drew throngs everywhere: 100,000 cheered her in Naples, crowds called her to the balcony...
...practically belches from such gorging. Somatically speaking, the paintings can be eaten. Lafleur's "nutritive period" works skyrocket from 12,000 francs to 10 million. Even one of his "starvation period" paintings "radiates the equivalent of a small glass of milk." As the press and art critics rave, the public riots for its share of edible art. Lafleur is bureaucratized as a French national resource. But when the nutritive fad is played out, a Lafleur painting is about as valuable as a leftover brioche...