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...controversy over Tchaikowski's music currently being waged in the letter-column of the Crimson threatens to engulf us all with its colossal profundities. No doubt it will all be very instructive to some historian of the future who will see in it symptoms of a crisis between the embittered disillusionment of the century and the last thwarted survivors of the age of progress. Two years' ago I was sufficiently interested to write a column on the "Tchaikowski Question." Today, with the world tottering about my head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke...
...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...
...haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched as it is by the blessings of civilizations, knows no moral law but the principle of expediency. Who knows by what infamous intrigue, what ruthless machinations, even this privilege was gained by them...
...pace with the meteoric Hitler. So in 1939 Joseph Stalin, falling back on his peasant cunning, decided to make friends with Hitler in order to postpone the conflict until he was ready for it. By his pact with Germany, Stalin started the war which he knew was bound to engulf him eventually...
...knows that he ... must . . . destroy liberty here in America and make this great nation part of his new Nazi world order. It is clear now to all of us that the onward march of Nazi barbarism must be stopped, or like the relentless tides of the ocean it will engulf the whole world...