… affords a fascinating insight into this most enigmatic composer, America’s “first composer of major significance,” … people. It is said that he was shy, but his eye for the ladies was formidable and his conquests were almost … with their differences in space and time, become the focal points of his increasingly complicated investigations. The …
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… create skeletal armatures of wood and wire for the upcoming Durga Puja festival, applying mud from the riverbank … muddy banks of the river so that they might see what has become of the world in their absence. I’m reminded of … I wonder if sculptors will continue to shape humans and animals and gods from the mud of the Ganges. Will children who …
… Roberts (“Ephesian”). Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. $2.50. The Actor in Dickens. By J. B. Van … now on my desk are based on new or partially new materials, and at least one has as its avowed object that of … between Mr. Van Amerongen’s work and these earlier studies is that his is the work of a gifted scholar: indeed it …
… to the elder, not only to his technical experiments but also, as F. 0. Matthiessen has pointed out, to “his long … is no doubt that their achievements, two decades apart, are comparable, and it is interesting to consider some of the … of people who wish to be taken away from themselves, parodies a whole series of second-rate ways of feeling and …
… 1690-1793. By James Truslow Adams. Vol. VI. The Rise of the Common Man, 1830-1850. By Carl Russell Fish. Vol. VIII. The … more or less familiar to scholars, and many topical studies, such as histories of the press, family, education, … an increasingly industrialized society—these are the high points of the first volumes of a notable series. We await …
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