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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
...R.S.S.S. had been to make India a Hindu state, with rule based on Hindu customs and scriptures, where Moslems and other non-Hindus would be at best tolerated strangers. In recent months R.S.S.S. recruits (beginning at eight years of age) have been drilled to hate Congress leaders. One exercise was to smash pictures of Gandhi. Another: to wear pictures of Gandhi and Nehru on the inner soles of their shoes, a supreme mark of disrespect...
Five days later, most of the nation's other top milers, who had never come close enough to Dodds to be exposed, joyfully rushed for the Baxter Mile starting line in Madison Square Garden. In 32 previous races, it had been Dodds against a stopwatch (his recent Wanamaker Mile world's indoor record: 4:05.3). This time the Baxter was more of a contest but less of a race. Penn State's 24-year-old Gerry Karver, who ran last in the Wanamaker, won the Baxter...
Whatever glories Sanders Theatre may have sported in the past, it is now dragging with feeble steps towards what may well be the end of its career. The chorus of condemnation, spurred by the recent agitation for a modern Student Activities Center has grown to the proportions of a filibuster. And hardly a voice is raised in Sanders' defense. Mixed in with the Bronx cheers are overtones of resentment about the University's attitude towards student theater groups. And as a final blow, Sanders' crealy physical condition evoked a stern warning from a state fire inspection official, who was reported...
Cambridge Police Chief John R. King lifted the ban yesterday which had closed 19 streets in the Cambridge-Somerville area to parking since last Wednesday. The recent three-day thaw has opened the thoroughfares to two-way traffic again...