Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were political fireworks at the Law School Forum in New Lecture Hall last night when John Fischer, editor of Harper's, charged that the views of another Forum speaker, John Somerville, follow the "official (Communist) party line," but in the portion of the Forum that was broadcast, amended his charge to "some similarity" between Somerville's views and those of the Communist party...
...Fischer's charge came after a prepared address in which Somerville, professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, N. Y., declared that unless American judges Russia by the same standards she applies to Britain, the world will once again...
...Fischer said that Russia is apparently using all its resources to prepare for the eventually of another war. His thesis was that Russia is motivated by fear that the United States will suffer a depression and become a fascist state. He proposed as a cure an American policy that will take into consideration the possibility of a Russian "course of world aggression...
During the two weeks at Lucerne the parade of participating talent was like an all-star game: Menuhin, Casadesus, Sargent, Francescatti, Ansermet, and Kletski. But above all these towered the stumpy, leonine figure of Edwin Fischer. Known to Americans mainly for his recordings of Bach, the sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which...
Somerville, who speaks the Russian language and has twice visited the Soviet union, instructed and taught at Columbia Universtiy the first courses in the United States devoted to examination of Russian thought since the revolution. Fischer, a former Rhodes scholar, spent several months this year as one of a team sent by the united States to check on distribution of UNRRA supplies in Russia...