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...resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble-jawed soldiers fighting crazily in corpse-strewn ruins; scrofulous, consumptive veterans (see cut, opposite page) coughing out pointless lives amid degeneration and squalor. Of all Germany's "degenerate" artists, Nazis numbered him first. In 1932, despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled to the U.S. He became a citizen, got a Guggenheim Fellowship and a job teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. And then...
...Auxiliary Fire Company keeps in training by holding weekly drills at which they run through various elements of fire fighting. Numerous students have witnessed their seemingly pointless efforts in pumping water out of the Charles by the Newell Boat House and spraying it upon luckless scullers...
...first place, the symphony had practically no structure or coherence, nor did it make up for this with strong melody or color. The themes were commonplace and thinly stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
...September Bible-Shakespeare-Ancient Authors examination, which is based on summer reading. This examination could be given in all justice in the past, when to most students summer was a glorious period of loafing, with plenty of time for casual study. Now this September examination is an anachronism, a pointless holdover which should be eliminated in view of the new accelerated summer program...
Further fence-straddling by the State Department is pointless. Now is the time for the severance of relations with the French Axis government and for all out support of the Frce French forces whose actions have been so hampered by the ambiguity of American policy. Now is the time to rally the remains of the democratic spirit in the people of France by answering General de Gaulle's plea in which he said: "What could we tell French citizens whom we enlist to suffer torture and death in resistance if it were understood that the French-men who have been...