Word: styling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Almost as though the war had never been, Syngman Rhee's days last week had returned to their orderly pattern. Up each morning at 6:30, he puttered briefly in his garden before eating a Western-style breakfast-coffee, fruit juice, cereal and eggs. Rhee's guests were offered cigars (Phillies) or Korean cigarettes. Rhee himself seldom smoked, explaining that cigars made him sick; he only smokes them in the privacy of a bathroom. A visitor who had American candy to present was sure of warm thanks. Toward the end of a day, Rhee was visibly weary...
...surprising; as a satirist, Huxley has always liked to draw blood and leave welts. But beyond that, like many essentially critical talents seeking to be creative, he goes to extremes, and overcreates; when he isn't being literary, he is being lurid. And here, without the armor of style, he lunges out with every rusty saber of theatricalism. The Gioconda smile is rather a maniacal laugh. And the production-with Basil Rathbone hamming as the husband and Valerie Taylor brilliantly overacting as the woman scorned-adds thumping the pedal to banging the keys...
...fact that Columbia has no campus of the quadrangle style is great cause for resentment but the fact that it is located in the greatest cultural and intellectual center in the world is not even considered. The fact that Columbia has produced some of the greatest and most profound men, in keeping with the tradition of the Ivy League, obviously means nothing when we remember that "it is in a city nonetheless." The fact that above all scholarship has always been the keynote at Columbia likewise means nothing because "its dormitories look like office buildings...
...first concert was all Beethoven. The orchestra held up extremely well considering that, at the moment, it has summer and winter conductors, each at opposite musical extremes. After a summer at Tanglewood under Koussevitsky's leadership, it takes a while to get used to the more subtle style of Munch. Nevertheless, Beethoven's first symphony, a comparatively fragile, early work, was handled with all the delicacy that can be expected of a full symphony orchestra. Ordinarily, the work should be performed by about 40 musicians, and it is a tribute to Munch that he could make the piece sound...
Frost has been standing people off all his life-the family who wanted him to become a lawyer, the editor who wanted him to change his style, the scientists who told him man is an accident of atoms, the theologians who told him that man is in a hopeless...