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Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes...
...club has sent letters to undergraduate political organizations in numerous colleges apprising them that the Senate at Washington doesn't seem eager to do anything about the political situation in Louisiana. Now is the time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...
...emphasis upon duties against privileges which Mr. Chase makes is his really essential point, and while I wish to criticize it in the matter of contents I wish to applaud its spirit. The spectre of our failure which he raises is a spectre which has proved fatal to societies in the past. We think it has proved fatal partly because education has been inadequate. Mr. Chase makes the mistake of supposing that the teacher he pleads for can fulfill his duties adequately. Neither the good clerks nor Mr. Chase's good teachers have or can have any answers or teaching...
...refurbishing their rusty classics. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, perennial bad boy of English politics, who. though not yet retired, has already written numerous memoirs, now emerges from his study brandishing the first two volumes of a life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look...
...responsibilities as a guide, Author Maurois is careful not to indulge his Gallic lightness but he does occasionally point a faintly ironic anecdote. As he passes from portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation The Edwardian Era should be hard to top; it might almost bear that seal so dear to the fronts of better...