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Lounging in Boston's Ritz-Carlton this week. Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy talked to Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe, two other newsmen, was mightily wroth when he saw Reporter Lyons' bylined story of the interview. Excerpt: "Democracy [said Kennedy] is finished in England. . . . It's all an economic question. I told the President in the White House last Sunday, 'Don't send me 50 admirals and generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason...
...with this rather obvious point in mind we examine the excerpt quoted above from the "Pro Musica," we are forced to the conclusion that Mozart's music is thoroughly superficial, that it resembles notlring so much as cheap confectionery. If, while he was really "unhappy," Mozart should have continued to compose "happy" music, he was being false to himself both as man and artist; false to his most penetrating, and, in sooth, his most sacred feelings. But Mozart does not ignore his environment; the environment is absorbed, digested, into the totality of his artistic experience. In Berlioz...
...Europe, a job for which, Dr. Flexner protested, he was "absolutely without qualifications." Nevertheless, Dr. Flexner pitched in, conscientiously toured brothels and red-light districts in eight European countries. To his wife, Playwright Anne Crawford (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Dr. Flexner faithfully sent reports of his investigations. Excerpt (from an interview with a prostitute): "When I left, I gave her a few gold pieces. . . . She inquired very kindly: 'Is this all?' meaning obviously did I ask nothing more. 'Yes,' I replied. 'Why,' she said, 'then...
After the fall of France last June. TVA's catlike, long-nosed vice chairman, David Eli Lilienthal, made a speech in support of TVA that no reasonable man could quarrel with. Excerpt: "Had the appropriations for the construction of any one of these TVA dams been defeated or delayed, the preparedness program of this nation would be impeded. ..." Defense, originally just a legal excuse for TVA's power policy, is fast becoming its prime concern. Last week Franklin Roosevelt informed Congress of the Defense Advisory Commission's twelve principles for letting defense contracts. One was that contracts...
...Excerpt: ". . . And here is this orator telling you that democracy is all through and that liberty is decadent. . . . When are you going to laugh, Americans? When is the great, hard, angry, shouting, razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell...