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After a dry-as-dust opening barrage by Majority Leader Alban Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
Applause, with a scattering of hosannas, greeted Harvard's $60,000 report on General Education in a Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week brought a belated, resounding Bronx cheer from the far left. Wrote British-born Author Alban Dewes (Who Was Socrates?) Winspear in the Communist New Masses: "Unsophisticated freshmen who enter Harvard College assume that they are entering an institution devoted to the unbiased search for truth. This [report] makes it only too clear that they are to enter a slick machine for indoctrination and reactionary propaganda...
...fall severed the Nazis' lateral communication between Valmontone and Velletri, their two main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...
...also have inclined Dean Dun to make haste slowly. Well does he know that Washington's Bishop is expected to be a go-getter, to spend much time raising millions to finish the half-completed Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, the majestic fane abuilding on Mount St. Alban for the past 36 years. Like all liberal Episcopalians, Dr. Dun, a great proponent of unity with Presbyterians, does not consider cathedrals important, would much rather be "a real pastor to the parish ministers" in the diocese...
...Alban Berg, Schoenberg's greatest disciple, composed a Violin Concerto just before his death. This magnificent piece of music is superior to Pierrot Lunaire chiefly because any architectonically-built composition surpasses a chain of short movements, but apart from that it possesses an immediacy of appeal and an emotional impact almost unequalled in any other modern work. Suite Lyrique, for string quartet, was for a long while the only thing of Berg's available on records. And it affected most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured...