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...what makes news, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909, last month invited his old friend and classmate, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl of Munich, to '09s 25th reunion at Cambridge in June as one of his aides. Because he has a keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then he sat tight to see what the Harvard...
...book consists largely of examples drawn from many composers from Bach to Cesar Franck. These examples are chosen with a keen sense of the aptness in illustrating a given point. They are all interesting in themselves as music and bear witness to Professor Piston's wide and discriminating knowledge of musical literature. The analytical comment is brief but always keen, lucid and consistent with the principles laid down at the beginning. Among the examples there are not only many short excerpts but ten complete compositions showing the relation of chords to an entire piece...
...Niebuhr's survey of the breakdown of capitalism is able, and sometimes brilliant. But it does not contain the real body of his contribution to our political understanding. It is in his keen criticism of Marxism as a religion (for it is a religion, whatever its pretensions to pure science may be), and in his treatment of its relation, doctrinal and actual, to other and older religions that Dr. Niebuhr is on the most fruitful ground...
...Roosevelt is the product of a political deal insofar as the nomination was concerned. But had it not been for Arthur Mullen's keen management of the Roosevelt strategy there might have been a collapse of the Roosevelt delegations. For the moment they started deserting it would have been like the champ Clark ascendency in 1912, when his followers had achieved a majority but Wilson came from behind and won the nomination
...true, nevertheless, that those of the Left Wing are either blind to the possibilities of their measures, or, on the other hand, filled with the shining vision of the Kremlin as God's beacon in a benighted world. Henry Wallace's article in the Sunday Times revealed a keen, practical man quite cognizant of the alternatives before the nation, in their long-run and short-run aspects, and alive as much to the dangers of fascism as to the necessity for national discipline. Where Sullivan in a panic indicates that the planning of our export agricultural problem may result...