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...Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left and muckrakes his subject with pious zeal...
Like a country defaulting on its war debts, the faction of commuters now howling about their Dudley Hall dues has masked its cries in a cloud of pious self-righteousness, while imputing to Peregrine White designs of a sinister and distinctly un-American character. If the bill under complaint were in any way unfair, a voice of objection should certainly be raised. But since payment of the five dollar charge for the second semester was clearly pledged by the would-be defaulters, the imputation of skullduggery on the part of the Dudley committee is as absurd as it is false...
...dramatic plan is at once simple and ingenious. The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off, and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses. The choice of these fell to Bach, and it is just in the insertion of these choral strophes that the full depth of Bach's poetic...
...among samples of the ingratitude of republics. It had been Zamora in 1931 who demanded King Alfonso XIII's abdication and proclaimed the Republic. Since then, during Spain's wild swings from Left to Right to Left in last February's general elections, President Zamora, a pious Catholic, has stayed in the unlovable middle. So outraged was he by his suspicion that his old friend Manuel Azaña, now Premier, had taken part in the Left parties' October 1934 revolt that he refused to speak to Azaña. On the other hand...
...Moscow, make defamatory remarks about the young men who are some day to fight the battles of this country. Gold Star Mothers, their poverty played upon by Stalin's ill-gotten gold, are bribed to denounce the beauteous virgins whose pilgrimage to Flander's Fields is their only pious desire...