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...acceptance of the Kennan insult is outrageous. Since 1947 I have had a growing conviction that our State Department would sacrifice America before they would deviate from diplomatic protocol. How many lessons does our State Department need in order to recognize the fact that in dealing with the Soviets, Das Kapital is their bible and their book of protocol? It is foolish to use diplomatic niceties on a regime which recognizes none of the common usages of civilized society...
Last week Mrs. Pirecnik was in Germany to appeal the verdict. When she saw her son for the first time in ten years she broke down, sobbing: "Das ist mein Ivan." In the quiet chambers of Chief Justice Clark, Ivan was questioned...
...highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...
Shouts of comradely laughter wafted into the room on the evening breeze. Above it all occasionally rose the strains of "Das Drunkenschpeil" or some other merry tune by Schneider's Silver Cornet Band. From the sound of it, there was a pretty big crowd. About six hundred, Elliott guessed. People who hadn't seen each other since freshman year...
...Described in a portion of the 1948 preface which Mr. Tucker did not read is Hindemith's use of tonalities, instead of themes, as lietmotivs. Thus, the key of B represents Mary, while E symbolizes Christ. This, certainly not evident at first hearing, is just another indication that Das Marienlaben--despite its immediate impressiveness--must be heard many times before it can be fully appreciated...