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...disgust with Tchaikowski among many music lovers has little to do with the music itself, but a great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste...
...provide a kind of last-day-of-school, prize-day exhibition platform on which the students can show off their talents. It exists for the purpose of making communication possible, on a literary plane, between the literate part of the college and those students who are concerned to interpret their own experience in the form of creative writing. In other words, it should serve the college in exactly the way that any other body of literature serves the society which supports it. But no one is going to read the Advocate because it is his duty...
Mickey Rooney, the cheeky adolescent of the Hardy pictures, the little tough guy of Boys Town, the flashy little hoofer of Babes in Arms, was going to have to interpret the boyhood of one of the most significant Americans who ever lived. Mickey Rooney was going to interpret a boy, who (like himself) began at the bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood...
...made all necessary provisions. The President and his First Lady may be reconciled by the thought that they are both wrong. American youth should vent its views however "immature" they may be; this is not only its right but its duty. On the other hand, it should not interpret its freedom of speech as the right to "eject" the irksome opponent--and to talk on behalf of the gagged...
...endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples that alone can give it vigor and life; and international, like our own national, institutions must be very securely and deeply anchored on reality." It is startlingly evident that Lord Halifax feels he is better qualified to interpret the "will of the peoples" than those who propose world federation. As for the "reality" he prizes so highly, it is safe to assume that its cornerstone is the maintenance of "business as usual" for the British Empire...