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...approach. . . . Everything is bad music that is not directed toward the emotion of the listener. Music must be an inspiration for the people; the mission of the Soviet composer must be to educate the good taste of the people." Both the Shostakovich children, daughter Galya, 11, and son Maxim, 9, are taking piano lessons. His short, plump, blonde wife Nina, who helps answer questions for her husband, said: "Dmitri doesn't think either of them has shown any particular talent, but Maxim's teacher says he is already showing signs of becoming a great pianist." Snapped Dmitri...
...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
...basketball maxim that a good man is better than a good small man is anywhere near true, the 1946-47 Crimson Freshman should come up with as potent a yearling five as has graced the hard-wood floors of the Indoor Athletic Building in many a lean year...
Damning the United States "yellow process" for "bringing calamity that much nearer" in U. S. Russian relations, Arthur Upham Pope, biographer of Maxim Litvinoff, defended Russian foreign policy last night at the first Law School Forum of the 1946-47 season...
Pope, a former professor of philosophy at the University of California and Amherst, is the biographer of Maxim Litvin-off. He acted as delegate to the Anniversary Celebration of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow...