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...just as Paddy first had them lowered in the same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when gendarmes forcibly dispersed the immovably enraptured diehards...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
...lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts to resume contact with Martin?now a successful business man in Philadelphia?only to find that he has divorced her and married again. She returns to New York. She has her job, but nothing else, and she is growing...
...this emphasizes the error, to put it mildly, which Mr. Palmer has committed. Apparently stung by a defeat of the institution of which he was once a member he has not hesitated to publicly accuse guests of the University of unblemished reputation of being grossly negligent and unfair, and sets up his puerile dissatisfaction as the measure by which to judge a decision rendered by men whose business it is to make continually unbiased decisions in far weightier matters than were here involved. Unfortunately Mr. Palmer's letter has not been confined to University circles where perhaps it would...
...fourth number of the Advocate, which appeared yesterday, contains the following article: Editorials; "Storm," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "Stung," by H. D. Chandler '06; "The Ballad of Those That Mock," by J. Hinckley '06; "Harvard Types, 2, Our Friend Brattle Hall," by J. H. B.; "The Rest of the Circle," by Van Wyck Brooks '08; "A Freshman's Letters Home," by E. D. B.; "To a Man of Pompeii," by Van Wyck Brooks...