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...week the Army & Navy flatly demanded that the Home Ministry, which had already rejected a previous doctrine that the Emperor is "an organ of the State" (TIME, April 15 et ante), should not only recognize His Majesty's ineffable superiority but proceed to express it in a Japanese idiom so elaborate and metaphysical that U. S. correspondents could only translate it "He's the top!" With the Cabinet floundering among Japanese terms so high flown that many of them are rarely heard and but partially understood by an average subject of Emperor Hirohito, His Majesty seemed certain...
...unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest of jazz orchestra leaders. Benny Goodman is currently the peer of "hot" white musicians, having supplanted the Dorsey Brothers, who have commercialized their idiom...
...same, but Norway-born Artist Lie had done about as much as one person in one season could do to enliven the Academy. Prizewinners, announced fortnight ago (TIME, March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among them were exhibitors few expected to find there: Surrealist Peter Blume (TIME, Nov. 26, et seq.), Reginald Marsh, John Steuart Curry, Guy Pène du Bois...
...challenge which Mr. Williams hurls at the budding musicians of America. "The music of other nations is the expression of their soul--can it also be the expression of ours?" He urges America to cease being the weakling admirer of European music and to develop its own musical idiom...
Author Williamson, dedicating his story to the friends with whom he wintered while he was collecting his material, drops appropriately into its gurgling idiom: "Ach, Mr. Williamson, you should shame yourself to put such things in a book...