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...came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances in modern times have rung with such courage as this Willkie acceptance speech. . . . [He] has destroyed utterly the fugitive dreams of appeasement. ... A smaller man than Willkie . . . would have paralyzed us in the presence of real danger. Willkie has risen above that. He has placed national interests above politics in this crisis...
...celebrate his victory, Fuhrer Hitler ordered flags flown throughout Germany for eight days, bells rung for three. As his war machine swung from Flanders into action on the Somme-Aisne line, he declared...
Reminding Columbia University alumni that Dante "reserved the lowest rung in hell for those who were 'neither for God nor against Him but only for themselves,' " British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian added "That is one reason why the democracies are in hell today...
...universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished soul. But if for no other reason than this must his music...
That tradition is emblazoned in the House Coat of Arms, rung out once a month by fifteen tons of Russian bells hung in the vane-topped tower, observed once a week at the ceremonial High Table. That spirit lives in every one of the 292 members who inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...