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...last week Manhattan heard a new chip off the old Bloch, his String Quartet No. 3. It had much of the modernist vigor audiences have come to expect from Ernest Bloch, but listeners also caught a new air of mellowness and reflection...
...made his charge on evidence prepared by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and urged the committee "with an the vigor at may command" to delete the compositions...
James T. Babb, Yale librarian, announcing the award, said MacLeish was honored "for the vigor, grace, and thoughtfulness of his book, 'Collected Poems 1917-1952," published last year...
Action & Reaction. The answers were obviously drawn in the hope of dulling the sense of vigor and challenge which followed Ike Eisenhower's election and his trip to Korea. Said Stalin: 1) war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. "cannot be regarded as inevitable," and the two countries can, in the future, live at peace with each other; 2) the sources of world contention lie in "the aggressive activities of the policy of the cold war conducted against the Soviet Union"; 3) he holds "a favorable view" of diplomatic conversations aimed toward a Stalin-Eisenhower personal meeting...
...tempestuous vigor of his story tends to blur the fact that few of Soloviev's characters have any individual flavor or depth. Mark Surov is more a window opening on to Russia than a credible person; most of the others are stock villains or victims. Only the Old Bolshevik Volkov, apparently modeled on Nikolai Bukharin, comes to life. And appropriately, it is he who carries the meaning of the book: "We, my boy," he tells Surov, "are the victims of our own crime...