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...race (he is guaranteed pure Aryan), but on the technical character of the music itself. Hindemith discarded the melodious romanticism of traditional German music, defied all conventions of musical syntax, did in music what James Joyce and Gertrude Stein were doing in words. To Nazi censors, who frown on everything antiRomantic, Hindemith's music was pure anarchism...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...
...Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...
...Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers attach their stockings with thumbtacks, but manufacturers frown on this, recommend normal garters attached by screws, as is necessary with aluminum legs. Artificial legs have two advantages, according to Manufacturer Joe Spievak who retired as president of the limb makers last week: your feet do not perspire and you do not have to change socks often...
...from taking the defensive, John Lewis was last week busy extending his long, long lines. Already launched under the friendly eye of his brother, Alma Denny Lewis, was a drive to organize 800,000 Federal Government employes, a move which brought an official frown from the Chief Executive of the biggest employer in the U. S. (see p. 9). He chartered a new organization called the State, County and Municipal Workers of America, hoped for 2,000,000 members, declared that strikes and picketing would not be included in the organization's policy. And last week John Lewis...