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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor's record in & out of Congress has been nearly everything Henry Wallace could ask for. He was a rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
...agreed (by a 5-to-1 majority) that it was a "good thing" rather than a "bad thing" to have this information available. But how good was the information? And was its popular acclaim a healthy sign? Almost unheard amid the general hubbub, a few expert faultfinders began to ask these questions...
...were algebra (his favorite form of escape) and Jenny. Protectively, she used to call him "my big child." Once, when he briefly returned to Trier, he wrote: "I have been making a daily pilgrimage to the old Westphalen house . . . which used to shelter my sweetheart. And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.' It's damned agreeable for a man to find that his wife lives on as an 'enchanted princess' in the imagination of a whole town...
This week, unable even to enter Kim's Korea, the U.N. Commission was ready to throw its problem, right back at Lake Success, ask U.N.'s Little Assembly what to do. And in North Korea, Kim was rushing the creation of a Soviet puppet government which might claim to speak for all Korea-while the Little Assembly was still talking...
...quartets, a piano concerto and two symphonies (one of which the Minneapolis Symphony played in 1946). He composes in a freely atonal style, admires the hardy music of Schonberg and Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg. Says he: "After all, Mozart composed 'modern' music when he wrote." When friends ask him why he writes like the new masters, but plays only the music of the old, he says: "I play only music which remains for me problematic-only music that is better than it can be played...