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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here were some of the reasons for the Moscow impasse. The Soviet leaders wanted the U.S. to quit Europe and go home. "Then they would automatically dominate the whole continent." Dulles did not believe that the Soviet leaders wanted war. "They are too smart to challenge us at a level where, temporarily at least, they are at a grave disadvantage. The present challenge is at a level where they are well equipped and where we are poorly equipped...
Vulgarity at the level of The Vixens has a polish that almost absolves it; literary standards are irrelevant to its high sheen and jet propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing field. The publishers neither conceal nor exploit this fact: their publicity refers to 31-year-old Frank Yerby as a man who taught English at Florida A. & M. College and Southern University, La., leaves it up to the reader to know that they are Negro colleges...
...popular as well as a professional success, last week's three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" was marked by the high level of interest apparent at all the speaking sessions as well as at the three sell-out concerts...
First, on the theoretical level, divergent points of view were expressed by Forster and Edgar Wind, professor of Philosophy at Smith College, in speeches concerned with the relation of criticism...
...second level, purely practical problems of music criticism were discussed. Miss Olga Samaroff, pianist, educator, and former music critic of the New York Post, hit the most basic of these when she pointed out the importance of critics in making or breaking artists...