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...motet, Iustorum Animae, probably the finest music on the program, sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means of polyphonic architecture to a climax of tremendous beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained...
...nearly two years, found some of its officers (president: Harvard's Professor Kirtley F. Mather) "frankly left-wing." In Manhattan, a committee of eminent educators, headed by Columbia's Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed their swords. Cried Professor Rugg, glaring at the Economic Council's Merwin Hart: "These men are . . . enemies, enemies of our children. Mr. Hart speaks...
Textbooks have long been a storm centre in U. S. schools. Biggest row was in 1928-1931, when the Federal Trade Commission found that the public-utility industry had authored many a school text. Then businessmen took a beating. Last week it was the educators' turn...
Last month the British War Relief Society asked lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson to write a poem for the program booklet for the big forthcoming "Carnival for Britain" in Manhattan. Author Anderson enthusiastically chipped in with an indignant set of quatrains on a text: "That man's face is a disgrace to Europe," reportedly spoken some years back by Benito Mussolini. Last week, having had their fun reading Poet Anderson's outburst, the sponsors decided it had to be censored as unsuitable for a charitable occasion. Sample suppression...
...problem of war-time censorship cast its inevitable shadow on the field of education last Saturday when Ralph W. Robey, Assistant Professor of Banking at Columbia, finished perusing six hundred text books and decided that they tended "to belittle our form of government and criticize the system of business enterprise." When he released his black list under the aegis of the powerful National Association of Manufacturers, people started taking him-seriously...