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Truly typical of Soviet music was Mossolow's Soviet Iron Foundry which Stokowski played early in the season (TIME, Nov. 2). Soviet Iron Foundry perfectly describes a mass of noisy machines. Most Russians prefer Tchaikovsky or Beethoven to the kind of din they hear all day at their work. But the Government encourages music which publicizes the new regime. It frowns on any music that is languorous or melancholy. For this reason gypsy music, so popular before the Revolution, is generally tabooed. The new music is vigorous, direct and, like Soviet newspapers, optimistic...
...campaign for the Presidency." Senate Democrats pounced into the fray and the whole Capitol rumbled and roared with the stridencies of party warfare. Just as President Hoover was congratulating Congress on its "patriotic non-partisanship" (see p. 11), that peaceful spirit of co-operation seemed to vanish in a din of angry words...
...before a battery of cameramen. Director Jesse Jones tossed his commission gaily in the air. tried to catch it. missed. Director Wilson McCarthy, the last appointee, was still unsworn when the R. F. C. board sat down to its first formal meeting and tried to talk above the din of hammering, plastering, carpet-laying and furniture-moving...
...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...
Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold...