Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlights of History. Two recent pictures, little highlights of history, illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage...
...critic did finally manage to enter. What he found (and reported in last week's Parisian Arts magazine) was almost enough to ring the bells in art-conscious Paris. His discovery: the past-master of distortion and despair in oils had been painting like a happy man once more...
...University rules regarding the possession of firearms and ammunition, Dean Hanford yesterday reminded students that regulations established by the Faculty state that "no student may keep firearms or ammunition in his room unless he has obtained a special permit from the Dean's Office or from his House master...
Rearing out the discovery that classical music is preferred for evening programs, the favorite listening periods on WHCN are from 8 to 9, when the Concert Master is being aired, and from 10 to 11 with Symphonia...
...master decided that it was not "work" for men to stand in line to punch the time clock, walk to their benches, don overalls, grease their arms, sharpen tools. Even if they started work before the whistle blew, the master argued, it should not count, because sometimes they loafed afterward or quit early...