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...seemed clearer than ever last week that there is no use guessing what Harry Truman can or will do. Post-election predictions that the President would purge Cabinet members who had failed to fight for him in the campaign had proved so far about as accurate as the election forecasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steady On | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...this hope in "Heartbreak House." It ends with its people realizing themselves and crying out for annihilation. The meaning of this conclusion is not clear to me but the main points of Shaw's best remarks are directed at the evils of a capitalistic society, and they are clearer today than then when he wrote them...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...emphasized the contrast between the gaiety and introspection, particularly in the first of the three works. A highly romantic reading of the slow movement sharply set-off the cheerful expression of the violin introducing the Russian theme of the last movement. The juxtaposition of the two moods is even clearer in the second quartet; an unusually long and searching adagio is followed by the rollicking humor of the jiggish last movement. Climaxing the whole series, the almost fugal finale of the third quartet presents complicated difficulties to the performers. Not without a little buzzing, the players carried...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: London String Quartet | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...course was not necessarily cynical or even illogical. In order to pursue a program, he had to exercise political control over the committees and the men who ran them. A Democratic-controlled Senate could pretty well sabotage a legislative program. A Republican Senate would make things much clearer. Dewey would then not have an alibi for failures, as Harry Truman had had with a Republican-controlled 80th Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Real Fight | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Nearly 100 students from the Eastern and Western sectors of a divided Europe met at the Student Council-sponsored. Salzburg Seminar to get a clearer picture of how Americans think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: European Hatreds Melt at Salzburg | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

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