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...Young and Fair has a real sense of how thorny and bewildering life can be: an endless emotional seesaw, a constant moral crossroads. It understands, too, how snobbish institutions like Brook Valley help strangle decent impulses. Unfortunately it has not let bad enough alone, but has gone at ticklish human problems with the red hot pincers of melodrama, and has so loaded itself down with wiles and theatrics that it finally caves in. There is so much plot that there is no real plight; the words, like the deeds, smack at times of garish melodrama...
...first laughing song. Among earlier successes: Ticklish Reuben (circa 1910), Laughing Boy Blues...
...case actually at hand involves the Youth for Democracy. Seventeen sincerely interested Radcliffe students have signed a petition requesting a charter along with three the who signed merely to be helpful, thereby creating a ticklish situation for the Council, Ordinarily, twenty signatures to a petition are required before a group can be chartered. But this technicality should not, in a case when it could be utilized to deny students as effective means of expression, be invoked to prevent a charter. The rule itself is somewhat arbitrary, and in the past it has been circumvented by petitions much more loaded than...
Musically the most interesting was Horowitz's Chopin. By choosing the Nocturnes in E Minor and F Sharp Major and the Ballade in G Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
This week the President again found a way to postpone the ticklish problem of a special session. After a 2½-hour conference with his Cabinet Food Committee and eleven congressional leaders (notable absentees: Senators Robert Taft and Alben Barkley, Speaker Joe Martin), he announced his decision. Unused UNRRA funds could carry Europe (principally Italy and France) to Dec. 1. Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million...