Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" (as the Stern gangsters like to call themselves) who had inveighed against the U.N. mediator. The Communists (whose line the Sternists follow) called Bernadotte a "traveling agent of American business." Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok accused him of partiality to the Arabs, and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion himself snapped: "The truce is an act of war designed to break our will...
Western scientists, approving this declaration, will follow Haldane carefully. If he goes to Prague, they will note what happens to him if he deviates from the party's scientific line. The line itself is none too clear, and devout Communist geneticists may eventually get into trouble if they stick to it. Last week Nobel Prizewinning Dr. H. J. Muller, a leading U.S. geneticist, pointed out a doctrinal time bomb that threatens Lysenko's followers. The Lysenko doctrine, said Muller, teaches that the heredity of organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said...
...soon learned what it was like to have Villa-Lobos around. Symphony orchestras found him a ranting, swearing conductor, who at times seemed barely able to follow a score ("C minor! C minor!" he would scream-then, quietly, "It is C minor, isn't it?"). Once during his class at the Rio Conservatory, a girl fainted. Next day Villa-Lobos posted a sign-and students knew he meant it: "Fainting in class not allowed...
...weighing the merits of British and U.S. radio. "The American system . . . gives the listener without license fee a greater variety of programs. It has two disadvantages which have made this country prefer a public monopoly. There are the irritating interruptions of the advertiser; and the programs tend to follow rather than to lead the public taste...
This treasure of a message, pried up after many heaves of grandiloquent rhetoric, might better have been left buried. But among the shorter lyrics that follow it are several which may give the reader an extraordinary sense ot pleasure. For, slight though they are, they announce the survival of one of the finest of American lyric talents...