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...celebration would end in the Procesión de los Blancos, when the upper classes would be allowed a brief inning. Till then, business would be slow in Lima. Socialists and Communists, despite their dim. view of all religion, would not molest the procession. But if they tried, the broad-backed brotherhood of litter-carriers would strip off their purple coats and attend to them...
...thanks to the war and the fact that 1) this year's U.S. crop is the smallest in 25 years and 2) textile mills, in peak production, have been using up cotton at 150% of the peacetime rate. But it was only a question of time till cotton buyers and speculators who had spread themselves too thin realized that the comparatively small U.S. carryover from this year (7,500,000 bales) would nevertheless be ample, and that textile mills were bound to taper buying. That time came last week, with a rush...
...Orchestra in rather a dim light. A program of Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This unintended effect was partially realized by Dr. Koussevitzky's insistence upon attacking the Weber with the bombast and brilliance usually reserved for Wagnor's "Rienzi" or "Die Meistersinger." "Oberon's" poetry and lyricism were largely overlooked. The Strauss...
...conduct of the powers [behind the judge?]. There exists a disparity which the world must notice. . . . The Nűrnberg judgment will look well or ill in history according to the future behavior of the four nations responsible for it. . . . If they behave as nations have invariably behaved till now, it will seem no more than the quirk of an oddly assorted bunch of victors...
...till yesterday not one of the 80-odd husbands had picked up his wife, worldly goods, and children to walk out of the Village, and more home-seekers come in every day. To many couples the Village meant the first sembance of privacy in their married lives previous experience with one-room apartments, kitchens and bathrooms shared with four or five other husbands and wives have sent some Villagers into mild rhapsodies on the new adequate facilities they now have...