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...most recent attack on artificial insemination was made at a symposium sponsored by the Chicago Institute of Medicine and the Chicago Bar Association. Last week Dr. Guttmacher replied...
...many times have I gone home a defeated man." The speaker was Olin Downes, the occasion was the final discussion session of last week's "Symposium on Music Criticism," and the speech was an extemporaneous one in answer to some statements made earlier in the day by Columbia's Professor Paul H. Lang. The New York Times' music critic sometimes was "defeated," he explained, because he felt he had left something important out of a review, or perhaps and stated an objection too strongly, or failed to emphasize some idea. Put this together with a later statement, in which Downes...
Many different Symposium speeches, starting from widely diverging points, ended at this same central problem: the influence of New York's critics on the nation's music box-offices, and consequently on the lives of musicians. One suggested solution--musicians should be amateurs, and earn their bread by other means. Another--to decentralize American music in various ways, instituting more purely local artists, thereby cutting some tentacles off the New York critic-octopus. There were also countless proposals for improved criticism, for broadened criticism, for more criticism, and for less criticism...
Golden opened the symposium with the statement that the current drive for "restrictive" labor legislation arose because of a tendency to believe that the labor situation last year was typical of that which will obtain under existing laws...