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...short but fairly penetrating essay entitled "The Emotional Essence of Brahms," written by none other than Dr. Koussevitzky, which appeared in the May Atlantic, should be a telling blow on behalf of its author in our current Battle of the Conductors. Besides being, with the exception of Walter's book on Mahler, the sole piece of intelligent prose published by a major American conductor on musical history or theory for the last ten years, it reveals Boston's Bayard as a keen historical analyst with broad-based Van-Wyck-Brooksian sympathies. This may seem like the introduction of strange standards...
Harvard men are being stranded on the assembly line of speed-up education. The decision to limit summer tutorial to Senior thesis writers strikes a crippling blow at the most distinguishing feature of Harvard education. Some plan must be devised to prevent the tutorial system from being rationed for the benefit of only a few selected students, with divisional preparation for the majority simply a matter of choosing from a list of books. Tutorial should be the last to be discarded, not the first...
This was dingdong business, and likely to be for some time, since each side needed more power to strike a decisive blow. The Jap, for one, was piling up his tools. Pilots told of increasing numbers of Jap ships headed for New Guinea and New Britain off to the east. The United Nations knew that might mean anything, even an assault on Australia itself. They halfway hoped it would come, felt more confident as the days went by that they could stop the Jap. But they were less sure than they were a week...
Lewis M. Thompson (the copilot) gave it more power as I nosed it down at the peak of each bounce and pulled back as we hit the swells and waves, easing the blow and still increasing air speed...
Whether Japan or Russia would attack first and when the blow would come was anybody's guess. But one man made a guess last week that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope...