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Thus last week the Roman Church's policy of picking & choosing among governments brought it face to face with a dilemma. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who mortally hates Fascism, discussing the implications of the "cultural treaty," blackly warned Catholics: "If, in the eyes of millions of people, Fascism and Catholicism should become identified, it might be very unfortunate for Catholicism in all democratic countries...
...Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp at one sitting. But respected New York Herald Tribune Pundit Lawrence Gilman unwrinkled his critical brow, crowed ecstatically: "Exceptionally great music . . . the greatest music composed by an American...
...Words Our Real Dictators? (Sat. 1 p. m. MBS), a Columbia University session on semantics (science of meaning) led by Dr. Harry Morgan Ayres, literature and language pundit...
What the concert did demonstrate is that the best U. S. Negro music is not all produced in Harlem and on Broadway, but that some of it comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...
...York Herald Tribune Walter Lippmann, most statesmanly Jewish pundit in the U. S., took a sober and broad-gauge view of the situation. Said...