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...moralists were licked, the novel triumphant. Then it became transfigured with Uplift-Mesmerism, Mormonism, Bloomerism, above all, Teetotalism and Abolitionism. As villain, the boozer rivaled the seducer, now plying his wenches with animal magnetism and transcendentalism, instead of sighs and potions. Among temperance novelists was Walt Whitman, who confided that he wrote the "rot" with the help of several bottles of port. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was promptly answered by at least 14 pro-slavery novels, including Aunt Phillis's Cabin. Deep in their weeping willows and haunted groves, early U. S. novelists...
Throughout a long life of deliberate sensuality, his diaries reveal a continual preoccupation with moral uplift. Constantly obtaining money on dubious pretenses, he published important books that nobody else would touch, did much to quicken British philosophic thought...
Last week, chesty over its contribution to U. S. uplift, CBS launched Invitation to Learning as a regular program, scheduled a series of 26 broadcasts on Sunday afternoons, immediately following the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...
...opinion thinks uplift is fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records...
Aside from political and religious taboos, Mexico's 103 licensed stations can arrange programs to suit their taste so long as 25% of the music they broadcast is native in composition. Of the 19 major stations concentrated in the Federal District 16 are privately owned. Leaving uplift to the seven Government stations, politics to XEFO, they apply themselves diligently to making their programs artistic successes. Outstanding among them are stations XEW, powered by 100,000 watts, and XEB, which is planning to step up its plant from 20,000 watts to 250,000 watts. (Biggest U. S. stations...