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Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
American, British and French soldiers snapped to attention. A band played the Marseillaise, God Save the King, the Star-Spangled Banner. Slowly three men mounted the steps to the 30-ft. granite statue on the avenue Pasteur in Algiers. They laid wreaths of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and tropical flowers on the slab supporting Lanowsky's figure of the Unknown Soldier. They saluted. Then they went off to lunch...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
...Haven expects a banner crop of Freshmen in July, another '47 installment next October, and Seymour stated that the college will continue teaching with its own facilities students exempted for physical reasons...