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...have said, I don't believe he has allowed himself to be coerced to the extent of supplying "interpretations" of his symphonies along political lines, and has thus left the question open as to whether he is depicting a picnic on the Volga, a Soviet tank factory, or the Triumphant Will of the Proletariat. He has shown by the immense amount of defense work he has undertaken in beseiged Moscow a very genuine love for Russia, and this love, I think, is the only objective idea he tries to get into his music...
...plotting mutiny and the murder of Columbus. Only the landfall at San Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month in the new world. Columbus returned to Spain triumphant in the belief that he had discovered the outer island of Japan. This was the high point of his career. The eleven years and three voyages that occupy most of Author Morison's second volume are like the thickening tragedy of blood in which there are too many acts...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...
...that the Soviet Union's western border, whose defenses he scoffed at, was the last outpost of white supremacy. Even if England went down, .he was confident that the U.S. could get along fine with Hitler's New Order. The New Order, he felt, was riding the triumphant wave of the future...
Greatest challenge was the triumphant emergence of a new human type, totalitarian man-superbly armed, deliberately destructive and dominant-at the very heart of what had been Europe's cultural sanctuaries. To this grim fact of 1940 men tried to readjust themselves in 1941 in books like Eugene Bagger's For the Heathen Are Wrong ($3); Gottfried Leske's I Was a Nazi Flier ($2.50); Hermann Rauschning's The Conservative Revolution ($2.75); William Henry Chamberlain's The World's Iron...