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Approaching the Stadtbahn station, the group met a stream of men & women hurrying home from work. Some started with fright when they spotted the prisoners. Others scowled darkly at the pock-marked Russian Tommy-gunner. Several passers-by produced precious cigaret butts which they pressed into the hands of the prisoners...
...most terrible of human forces-fright-was abroad in Britain. The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never frightened them...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
Rand's book begins with a belligerent introduction by a topflight fellow-designer, E. McKnight Kauffer, who thinks advertising art in the U.S. is "of the poorest quality" but makes an excep tion for Rand. The trouble with advertising art, Kauffer says, is "fright and [the] over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below...
...Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...