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...Russian Revolution destroyed many things, but it did nothing to destroy this nationalist musical heritage. Shostakovich admits his debt to "The Five." But he is far too much of an eclectic to stay in the nationalist groove. He is also too much of a revolutionist. His Second Symphony he subtitled October (after the October Revolution). His Third Symphony he called...
...strategist, and he knew it. He was "not a revolutionist, so he would say to himself, over and over again, 'My country, my country, my country.' " He profoundly respected arrogant, disloyal Charles Lee. He liked to think of the Continental Congress "as an august Senate, such as had sat in ancient Rome." He knew "there was no real bond between himself and the rabble of Yankees, backwoods Southerners, and foreign revolutionaries he led; yet there was a drive and a force, and an ache in his heart for something unseen yet tremendously powerful and forthright...
Pandit ("Learned Brahman") Jawaharlal Nehru is a revolutionist, orator, humanitarian, philosopher, amateur swimmer. His book is 1) an extraordinary feat of intellectual gymnastics-most of it was written in torrid (112°) Indian prisons, where Author Nehru has spent about eight years for anti-British political activity; 2) a highly readable history of the world, with special emphasis on that part of it about which most Westerners know least-Asia...
...transformation of Padilla from a revolutionist in the hills to a man of property is a parallel to the transformation of Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...
...began last month between two German stations that broadcast in English, pretend to be British. One, the "New British Broadcasting Station," accused the other, the "Workers Challenge Station," of stooging for Cripps. The "Workers' Challenge" boys made a show of defending Cripps-while subtly characterizing him as a revolutionist. Last week the German radio kept turning the screw with this latest twist on the Bolshevist Bogey theme...