Dear Editor
Dear Editor Bell 1 was sorry to see Pearl K. Bell's otherwise excellent discussion of Stephen Spender's new book, Love-Hale Relations: English and American Sensibilities ("Anglophiles and...
...Dennis Clark...
...I, for one, hear only ambitious confusion, undisciplined energy, and chaotic grandiosity...
...Besides, "orgasmic culture" As Bell calls it has been dead for five years now...
...Chicago Willa Carlyle Democrats With considerable justification, Joseph Albright ("Blowing the Big Issue," NL, July 8) needles the Democrats for failing to come up with any creative remedies for the nation's economic ailments...
...Yohalem does indicate that many critics consider Ives' compositions ill-made, but is this the crucial The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Dear Editor Bell 1 was sorry to see Pearl K. Bell's otherwise excellent discussion of Stephen Spender's new book, Love-Hale Relations: English and American Sensibilities ("Anglophiles and Americaphobes...
...This is not a popular position to take, particularly in the year of Ives* centennial...
...It seems to me, the question to be asked is whether Ives was mistaken from the start...
...Only teenage creeps and Nebraska Republicans continue to take it seriously...
...Still, I believe it is important to make certain distinctions: One can too casually dismiss the manifest pleasures of Bach and Mozart in a search for the ephemeral excitements of innovative frenzy...
...Some people, perhaps Yohalem among them, profess to hear cosmic glories in Ives' music...
...issue...
...Such attacks strike me as ill-advised coming from a reviewer whose greatest strengths are restraint, judiciousness and good literary manners...
...Pittsburgh Hilary J. Wardell Ives Although I thoroughly enjoyed John H. Yohalem's review of From the Steeples and the Mountains: A Study of Charles Ives ("The Man Who Heard the Future," NL, July 8), I wish he had devoted less space to describing the composer's life and more to discussing the music's quality...
...Portland, Ore...
...NL, July 8) turn at the end into a polemic against the counterculture...
...His diagnosis could well be extended across the board: The party that gave us the New Deal, New Frontier and at least the hope of a Great Society is sadly lacking in domestic and foreign policy initiatives to meet the needs of the '70s...
Vol. 57 • July 1974 • No. 15
