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Hymn to Soup. For months the record companies had stockpiled master platters like an Army cook turning out buckwheat cakes (TIME, Nov. 24). For a long while to come there would be enough new records around to choke any disc jockey. Estimates ran as high as three years for popular tunes. And almost all the great classical compositions are already filed away on master discs...
Last week, wearing his familiar rehearsal outfit-a severe black alpaca choke-collar coat, that set off the whiteness of his hair and mustache-the little cellist himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly...
...civil war that would preclude any American aid. Ramadier's successor, ex-finance minister Robert Schuman, is charged with an immense task--that of tramping Communism under a vigorous and potent democracy. His success or failure might well set the future pattern of current American plans to choke off Russian expansion, for France is the keystone in the Marshall Plan...
...interferes with his love life. All the characters are seen as poor, pathetic creatures, and Bemelmans sets forth his point of view concisely near the end of the book: "God!... You have to be tolerant in this world, but out here you have to be especially tolerant or you choke with hate. Gee, it's easy to hate these guys, if you let yourself. They're so awful. Every one a heel, everyone a procurer, every one a talker. Look at them." Bemelmans remains tolerant often with what must be a superhuman effort, and the book keeps a delicate balance...
When the purse pinches tightly enough to choke a struggling tutorial program, the extravagance of an expendable advisory system should not be allowed. Granting that functions such as study help, course guidance, and even aid in personal problems should be provided by the University, the advisory system has shown itself by popular consensus to be relatively unsuited to this sort of work. Yet the average lowest paid advisor makes four hundred dollars a year for his task--based on a flat rate of twenty dollars per student. If this money were diverted to extend tutorial, admittedly invaluable in the social...