Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page Dialogues on Music, published in Zurich, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler, now shelved in the U.S. because of his Nazi leanings (TIME, Jan. 17), admitted to a gnawing distrust of the tastes of audiences in general. An audience, he wrote, is "a mass without a will of its own . . . which reacts automatically to any stimulus. Its first reaction is frequently right, but very often it is thoroughly wrong. How could we otherwise explain that operas like Carmen, A'ida and La Boheme, today among the most durable successes, flopped* completely when performed for the first time...
...examination week at the College of the City of New York; but in class after class only a handful of students showed up. Manhattan newspapers headlined the reason: about 2,500 students were on strike. For three days pickets paraded, hooted at "scabs," skirmished with police, cheered & jeered in mass rallies. They played dirges for the "death of democracy," took collections to "bury the bigots," flaunted signs inscribed NO HATE-MONGERS AT C.C.N.Y. and JOIN OUR QUIET RIOT. A long-simmering old dispute over two teachers, whom the college refused to fire, had boiled over...
...acquired no facilities for arriving at judgments social or artistic and he is apparently without religion of any kind." His sister Mary is no better, nor are his parents. They, too, are adolescent, "not free men and women but base mechanicals . . . the products and patrons of mass management ... of a standardized press and radio, of slick magazines and book clubs, of an overly vocationalized education, of pressure salesmanship...
Many a moa perished in the ooze, which eventually got to be the consistency of jelly. This year, New Zealand scientists have dug up 57 moa skeletons from the gelatinous mass. One newsman referred to "Moas in aspic...
...full every talent and scrap of wisdom of his 65 knowledgeable years. Out from under their old wraps he brings a host of favorite, once-rejected projects (such as the portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider's web of communications...