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...press, "literary ladies and gents who adore peasants," "the aesthete with his private income . . . bloodless and shrinking." Veterans are also plainly told that in eschewing hominess they must stand four-square behind state-planned economy (". . . I do not believe in economic liberty. . . . Economic life is necessarily a communal life...
Priestley-now less & less a novelist, and more & more a pamphleteer-also admits that he sheds no tears for individual enterprise. "Modern man is essentially a communal and cooperating man. . . . We have no Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare. But we accomplish what would seem miracles to our forefathers ... by our new pooling of knowledge and our superb teamwork. When the American O.W.I. . . . showed us the film they had made about [TVA] . . . I felt as deeply moved as I would have been by a noble work...
...Shosta kovich was a prime target, and Prokofiev caught a few glancing blows. Now, considering that at one sitting rival composers can make or break a year's work by one of their colleagues, the sessions are fairly harmonious. Fellow members, regarding another's work in the communal spirit, can tell him he has been composing too many chamber works, and should change his pace. Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony was commissioned (the going price for sym phonies: from 8,000 rubles up, plus performance bonuses) after his fellows decided that, since his last symphony was written...
Borodin: Prince Igor (artists and orchestra of the Bolshoi State Theater, U.S.S.R.; Asch, 10 sides). A top-drawer company, featuring communal teamwork instead of star soloists, distinguishes this streamlined Moscow recording of a pre-Soviet opera. Well recorded on unbreakable vynalite. Performance: good...
...hottest issue at the polls will undoubtedly be Pakistan, with the League for and Congress against. The vote will show the real strength of the separatist trend. Commented the practical London Times: "The restoration of political life . . . even if it does not resolve the communal problem, will relate communal claims to ascertainable facts...