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Peter and the Wolf (Beatrice Lillie; London Symphony Orchestra; London). The ineffable Bea seems to take Prokofiev's fable with what Max Beerbohm called "a stalactite of salt." Her impish spoofery is just what this staid and somewhat self-conscious classic now needs...
...elected were John A. Lowe of Mower and New York City; George A. McDermott, Jr. of Mower and Port Washington, N.Y.; Andrew O. Shapiro of Thayer and West Hartford, Conn.; Marc A. Slotnick of Hottis and Newton Centre; Mark L. Winer of Greenough and Dallas, Texas; and R. Peter Wolf of Thayer and Beltsville...
ROSENBACH (616 pp.)-Edwin Wolf II, with John Fleming-World...
Baronial Branch. The fascinating tale of book collecting's great days emerges from this densely written biography by two former Rosenbach employees, and few readers will mind that the book is too long by half or that its style sometimes flutters giddily. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach was born in 1876, and sniffed book dust from childhood; his uncle Moses Polock was an early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While...
...short, what the Liberal Union's stand amounts to is a hidden infringement on academic freedom. When it asks for Administrative action against ideas presented in a classroom, the Liberal Union--like the wolf in sheep's clothing--looks disturbingly like the Veritas Foundation...