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Chief concern of Labor was that thus far its achievements were patchwork, that except for Bevin, its leaders were not strong enough to deal with the firmly entrenched Conservative Party. With parliamentary representation frozen for the duration at 165 Laborites to 370 Conservatives, Laborites feared that the Tories were up to their centuries-old tactics of absorbing the Opposition with the end in view of crushing...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...
...political purpose served by words, Franklin Roosevelt did not have to rush into hasty deeds, was expected to let Congress take its time. And time is what Congress needs. With an unscientific patchwork of tax irritants already on the books, Congress' real job was to overhaul the entire U. S. tax structure, revise it toward two simple objectives: maximum revenues and maximum production. Meanwhile, with the President's untimely words in its ears, many a U. S. corporation recalled the last time it had "a steeply graduated excess-profits tax." The memory was not pleasant...
After picking over this vague patchwork, M.P.s were still skeptical. But when they went home and dug down in their files, they found that Ronald Cross was probably not exaggerating...
...hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...