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Composer Bennett began his symphony with conventional jubilant trumpetings. That was "The Dodgers Win." "The Dodgers Lose" was a dirge, almost Oriental in its luxurious grief. The scherzo of the symphony opened with plaintive bassoon bleats: President MacPhail offering Cleveland the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park in trade for Pitcher...
Kamâl Atatürk's great accomplishment, like Peter the Great's, was in breaking with his country's past. Inönii, coming from truly Oriental forebears, is satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as...
In Personal Record Green speaks of his difficulties in writing this new book (in French, of course; it is translated by his old friend James Whitall). He speaks also, and more often, of his gravitation toward Oriental mysticism. "Our lives can be explained only if they are related to those...
Oldest Literature. From the late Stone Age to 2000 B.C., a non-Semitic people, the Sumerians, dominated the Euphrates Valley, the great "cradle of civilization." Even their name was lost to history until 1869, and not until recently has their literature been discovered and translated. This is the work of...
For the first time in history, last summer war became an active possibility between the U.S. and a nation this country had evangelized. Japan reacted by banning foreign-mission executives and funds, more or less as the U.S. might ban German cultural agents from executive posts in American churches. Thereupon...