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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Work. Haggin knows, however, what every musician knows: that the riches of music are only to be gotten by those with an appreciation of the whole tonal text: "A piece of music is, to begin with, an organization of sounds; experiencing it begins with hearing the sounds and the way they are related in each phrase, the relation of one phrase to the next in the progression; and learning to hear these relations is at the same time a process by which you learn to follow the grammar and logic of musical thought...
That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...
...dogma which Republicans have used with dulling regularity; he called upon the citizenry to consider the horrible facts of the public debt, and New Deal bureaus, and unblushingly cried out a warning against U.S. Communists. But with John Bricker, as with Billy Sunday, it was delivery rather than text which filled the big tent...
...tonight there were no cocktails. He smoked only two cigarets all evening -one before the speech, one after. Silently, engrossed, unsmiling, he passed rapidly through his crabmeat, turtle soup, breast of chicken, then pulled out his speech text and went to work. Pencil in hand, wetting his big thumb from time to time as he turned the pages, he read the speech over to himself, speaking softly, gesturing slightly. In the unflattering light of the little reading lamp, his weary face looked seamed and haggard. As he read he would jot down little interpolations, asides and personal stage directions. This...
...boys in the Army, as an example of the Washington thinking that led to General Lewis Hershey's unfortunate remark that "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." In fact, the full text of "Uncle Freddie's" report ended up by recommending speedy demobilization. But while the Democrats were getting to their feet to shout "I object," Prosecutor Dewey was attacking on another front...