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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
Thus in London's Sunday Express last week, Columnist Nat Gubbins good-naturedly warned U.S. tourists in Britain. But U.S. trippers did not scare easily. Two months ago political worries had led some to cancel trips to Europe, but the defeat of Italy's Communists had queued them up in longer lines than ever. Last week, for the first time since last fall, the Queen Elizabeth left New York City packed to the rails. This summer some 100,000 U.S. tourists will visit the United Kingdom and Eire; twice as many hope to go to the Continent...
...critics gasped, too. "This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester Guardian came utter damnation: "Thoroughly un-British...
...soon as the government denies American citizens their right to express their own opinions or to belong to any political organization they choose, it is fighting Communism with its own weapons. The events in Europe throughout the last hundred years have shown that once the political opposition is driven underground, practically nothing can eradicate it, although infringements by the government on civil rights increase constantly. The Mundt Bill, if it is passed, would only be the first milestone on the road to the very police-state system which it is the main problem to avoid...
...shall expect the Radcliffe student body," she stated, "to express itself through Student Council after investigating to see what advantages of our honor system may be retained if the merger goes through because of pressing administrative necessities...