Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, for a change, was in print with an utterance that had nothing to do with mankind's folly. The New Statesman and Nation had got hold of an old note he had sent (apparently with a picture) to the late Actress Ellen Terry, with whom he carried on a safely epistolary "love-affair" for 30 years...
...Dusen. A note that ran through many of the speeches was clearly struck by Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary: "The knowledge and skills of modern civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control." Speaking of world Protestantism, Van Dusen said: "Inevitably, global war put the World Christian Movement to its severest test. What possibility was there of maintaining a world program of expansion amidst world-severing conflict? . . . What reality could be preserved by a universal spiritual fellowship, by a World Community...
...note of caution against "excessive optimism and excessive pessimism ... in the never-ending struggle for law and justice." There was another note of warning: "If we are going to build a regime of law among nations, we must struggle to create a world in which no nation can arbitrarily impose its will upon another nation. Neither the United States nor any other state should have the power to dominate the world. . . . As a great power ... we have a responsibility, veto or no veto, to see that other states do not use force except in defense of law. The United States...
Auer. Hungary's Minister to Paris, Paul Auer, voiced a note of bitter disappointment not alone in the United Nations, but in the Big Powers' peace terms for Hungary. The United Nations, he said, was a misnomer-the nations "did not unite, did not form one great allied United Nations, but only an alliance of states, a league of members all jealous of their sovereign rights." He emphasized that Europe's small nations are hurt by the fact that when the fate of Europe is discussed in international gatherings they have little to say. Said Auer...
...rest of the evening was spent in uneasy warfare between those who wanted to stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time...