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...well as the P.T.A. Gregory's emergence suggests that there may be a relaxation in the longstanding, well-meant but dreary taboo against "racial" or "ethnic" humor, and that it is once again possible to tell a Jewish, Italian or Negro joke without being regarded as a bigot...
...denounced it as "sheer demagogy . . . bigotry in the guise of anti-bigotry." A Detroit News editorial compared it to "the McCarthy tactic of yelling 'Communist' every time anybody disagreed with the Wisconsin Senator's ideas or methods. Today the too common practice is to holler 'bigot' at anyone in the opposite camp...
Doubtless the anti-bigot bigots will tar me for this. But I will plead only what the papacy has always claimed for itself: that "the Pope has two swords." The religious sword we fear not at all. It is that political sword that shakes...
...meet is a rigorous, three-day affair conducted in the town's Casino movie house and the municipal theater, under a glowering panel of judges headed by France's Composer-Teacher Eugene Bigot. The young maestros must whip a professional orchestra through difficult pieces, noting as they go errors planted along the way to trip them...
...Borodin selection and got lost in Die Fledermaus. When it was Jorgensen's turn, he moved to the podium with the same puzzling grin and waved the orchestra through both pieces without a flaw. During the last test selection-a tricky, untitled tone poem composed by Judge Bigot to tax contestants-Jorgensen drove the orchestra through the score so fast that the string section was glazed with perspiration at the finish. He won first prize hands down. For all his clowning, he had proved himself, in the words of Judge Bigot, "a truly great young conductor...