Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be unjustly affected by the mistaken inference that this book, destined to become the authority on the subject, advises against their employment...
...like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says Mr. Krock, "He is one of those...
...what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist Bohrod's serio-comic detail tips the scale toward optimism...
From time to time since then, Harold Ickes has repeated his thesis, with trimmings. Last week he returned to his attack in a book (America's House of Lords, an Inquiry into the Freedom of the Press*) richly documented with I-told-you-so's. America's House of Lords develops the same thesis which its author outlined on the air last winter: there is no danger that the U. S. will impose any Government control upon newspapers, but it doesn't have to: the press is already censored by its business connections and advertisers. Publishers...
Much of the credit for Harold Ickes' book goes to able Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, who assembled the facts, earns thanks in the preface for "research . . . wise counsel . . . help." America's House of Lords on eight occasions quotes TIME as its authority. But, said Harold Ickes of TIME lately: "I never read the Goddamned thing...