Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THEY BEHAVE LIKE RUSSIANS (262 pp.)-John Fischer-Harper...
During the war Author John Fischer,* an associate editor of Harper's, studied Soviet affairs for the Board of Economic Warfare; in 1946 he spent about two months in the Ukraine as a member of the UNRRA mission. As if to answer former UNRRA colleagues who attacked "inaccuracies" in his Harper's articles, he admits that he hardly qualifies as a full-fledged Soviet expert. But he thinks he learned why the Russians act as they do, and puts his case plainly and without rancor...
...Ukraine, Fischer writes, he saw little of the conspiratorial bitterness generally supposed to pervade the Soviet Union. "Nowhere have I ever met more generous, kindly folk, nor any who behaved with such instinctive courtesy." Members of the UNRRA mission rode about in their own automobiles as they chose, "nor did anyone ever try to prevent us talking to people on the streets." Workers in factories arid on farms were obviously short of comforts, and grumbled about hard times. But the grumbling was "not much different from that of American consumers who are fed up with food shortages and house hunting...
...much younger pianists are just beginning but already show signs of great talent. Jean Helmatien Benda, a pupil of Edwin Fischer, although only in his mid-twenties, has an astounding technique. His only concert of this year in Geneva consisted of a well-planned and well-played program of Beethoven and Liszt. Far more astonishing is a 16-year-old Austrian, Friedrich Gulda, who won last fall's International Music Contest in Geneva hands down over 150 other pianists. He is still studying--and his technique shows it occasionally--but from the point of view of interpretation of a wide...
After voting on the two resolutions, the teachers group heard Stephen Fischer of the San Francisco Chronicle, who is studying here as a Nieman Fellow, discuss general union topics...