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...pupils. Their ranks (an estimated 100,000) still include many a teacher of the sort that flourished a generation ago: dowdy females who had studied with a pupil of a pupil of Liszt, made their rounds with brief case under arm, eked out a living playing the organ in church. Women teachers still outnumber men, io-to-1, although men get thrice as many pupils. A good teacher today tends to be younger, better-trained than those of the previous generation. She gives about 20 lessons a week, makes about $40 from them, has not yet given up hope...
...until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling them morning and night with...
...went back to Canton, Ohio, in time to help tootle Townsman William McKinley into the White House and to learn "the rule of never voting for a Presidential candidate who had the slightest chance of election." In 1903 he became editor of his first paper, The Labor World, organ of the Brewery Workers Union. As editor he went to New Orleans for the bitter jurisdictional strike of 1903 that nearly ruined both breweries and workers in that city. His narrative of the strike is a small masterpiece of labor history...
...three long domed Dwight Macdonald, hoarse voiced Frederick W. Dupee, pale-browed George Lovett Kingsland Morris-put out their first post-graduation magazine in 1930: a slim, self-conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips...
Since then Editor Macdonald has blown a sharp if not widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged...