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...Thought, and Hymn of Toil." Some of the music, such as the "Primitive" section, is really wild. Throughout, the piece shines with the style of Slavenski, incorporating Eastern ideas of melody with western harmonic practices. He has not quite achieved a satisfactory blend, but he makes effective use of pedal points, repetitions, and modality. While Slavenski is long on imagination and short on technique, the record is certainly without equal in its field...
...active intrigue. Since 38-year-old Gamal Nasser is perhaps the Arabs' ablest leader, the West has tended to ignore or to discount Cairo's busy factory of revolt-or, in the case of the U.S., to sympathize with the demands of dependent peoples and to soft-pedal some of its ugly overtones...
Actually, many Southern newsmen took it for granted that their papers would soft-pedal such an emotionally explosive issue. But the surprise is that so many editors are now willing to stick their necks out. It is only about ten years since newspapers in the South began in any numbers to break such old habits as depicting the Negro only as a criminal or a minstrel end man, and learning such new ones as calling him "Mr."-a practice still far from universal. Only in the same short period have Southern papers started to drop the tag "Negro" in stories...
Disagreeing with the professor, Nelson Cole, editor of the University of Alabama's "Crimson and White," told the CRIMSON that the NAACP had played Miss Lucy for too much sensational publicity. "If Miss Lucy's attorney had taken a softer pedal, some of the student resentment might have been avoided," Cole stated...
...Crimson backs ran with energy, sistence when tackled. They didn't want to stop. And despite the rice-paddy conditions, the backs, particularly Matt Botsford, cut with amazing sureness. Determination and pedal agility seem to be attributes of other members of Mr. Jordan's team, as end Bob Morrison demonstrated on his run for the second Crimson tally, squirming and fighting his way clear for the score after taking Botsford's pass...