Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans Present. They shared the Festspielhaus' 1,600 seats with U.S. officers and their families, for whom nearly one-third of the tickets were reserved, and some of the queer fish who have doubled Salzburg's population since V-E day. Salzburg has become an ideal hideout for big-& small-fry Nazis, and has replaced Istanbul as a center for intrigue. (Favorite gag in the Vienna cafés: "If you are not a member of the Nazi Party, then what were you doing in Salzburg...
...inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that his peasant mother, whom he worshiped, called him "the little priest." He entered a seminary...
Maestro Koussevitzky thinks it no compliment. He bangs an angry, sunburned fist down on his piano. "Why a Salzburg?" he snaps. "Let's have courage to say it. In early stages Salzburg was ideal place-now it is the most commercialized thing you can imagine. Most people who come to Salzburg are snobs who come to say they have been in Salzburg. They must rehearse too quick, in a week, maybe less. Why not a Tanglewood, U.S.A.? We play here something that is more perfect than ever a performance in Salzburg. To make great art great artists have...
...Nothing, indeed, was further from the purpose of Jesus than to organize society on some new plan. ... He was not concerned with poverty as a social problem, for which some drastic solution must be found. He was seeking to create a new disposition in men. . . . Our modern ideal of a society so organized that all would be obliged to aid each other would perhaps have had little attraction for Jesus. He might have doubted whether the world would be any better when no place was left for charity...
...Feather is another one of our imported critics and as such labors under some of the same handicaps that were sketched here in a previous column about Hugues Panassie. As an arranger and composer he hasn't acquired quite enough of the American jazz idiom. "Mop Up," "My Ideal" and numerous other Commodore records handled by Feather on which numbers of big guns in the jazz world have emitted nothing but pops illustrate comprehensively his type of cramping, pseudo-modernistic, flagrantly artificial arrangements. Here we have the reverse of the King Midas situation, for it seems all of the Gold...