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...wish I were a contemporary Buddha-or even an octopus- so that I might have more than our allotted number of hands to applaud you for having published those pertinent excerpts of Major General John R. Deane's letter to General George Marshall, written before the now hysteric Yalta fiasco. Had the late F.D.R. seen fit to heed it (instead of hide it!) during those mollycoddling, vodka-swigging days, God only knows how much more beautiful the world might have been today. "We Must Be Tougher" should be rammed down the throats of every American who still vacillates between...
...Laborite M.P. Hector McNeil thought that "if Jesus came back, He would see much to admire and much that would distress Him, and, on balance. I humbly suspect more to applaud than to condemn. For man improves. Compassion . . . has grown more lively in our country . . . the young-and no less the hungry, the enfeebled and the aged-have become a high charge on our national effort...
Moore stated "I am not speaking officially for the Club, but I personally applaud Miller's action with the utmost viger...
Vary rarely indeed does one find a young composer writing almost exclusively in contrapuntal texture. Those who don't master it early usually never master it at all, as Gluck, Schubert and Schumann discovered. So one can only applaud Austin's approach, especially since this Fugue turned out to be much more than an academic exercise. Austin showed a definite flair for orchestration; the sound was clear and the climaxes well spaced. If the sonorities and harmonies were often reminiscent of his teacher, Roy Harris, no matter; this is as it should be in a composer's formative years...
...detect a note of gentle satire. Surely he does not believe that Soviet farms exceeded their quotas, "in some instances by as much as 303 per cent." He seems rather to be pointing out the differential between Communist propaganda and the hard facts of life. In this we applaud him, but we do not think that the exaggerations of the Soviet embassy excuses the well fed from feeding starving people. David L. Lively '58, Thomas W. Burrows '57, and John R. Butcher '57 for the Harvard...