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...inclination and character, at least, Schuman was fitted for his task. He had few friends. He was so shy that he blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
When Cab Galloway first heard Toni Harper, he paid her the highest compliment in the Galloway scale. "That little gal," said he solemnly, "is real gone...
Australia helpfully suggested that since the English language was in dispute, everyone should talk Spanish. Up jumped Mexican Delegate Santiago de la Vega. His language had been insulted! No, shushed a colleague: it was a compliment, not an insult...
...surest signs of spring in Buenos Aires is the piropo, the compliment whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
What is needed is a semosterly course to serve as a compliment to Humanities 12a--"Great Artist." This course should concern itself not only with great composers and musical works of the past, but should attempt to approach music from a more modern view, analyzing it as an outpouring of the emotions and social terminant. Also, it should strive to link up music with the other humanistic fields of art and literature. It should try to teach some understanding of the principles of the main forms and modes of musical expression, such as the sonata and symphony. By making...