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Last week the Soviet-inspired agitators shifted their tactics to Mosul in Iraq, head of Britain's Mediterranean oil pipeline. Their threats were backed by a vehement anti-British campaign in Teheran's Russophile newspapers...
World politics had never seemed so fully divorced from furtiveness and formality, from striped pants, heel clicking, and shiny tables in big, guarded rooms. Almost before the first Bronx meetings began, two A.F. of L. unions had a vehement jurisdictional argument over the television camera in UNO's council chamber. People representing something called "The Committee for Non-Violent Revolution" picketed delegates at a cocktail party in Manhattan, were noisily hauled away by the cops. Some 2,000 newspaper and radio men-181.8 for each delegate-swarmed like lightning bugs, flashbulbs popping...
...doctrine of "art for art's sake" has had rough sledding in Mexico. With Mexicans, it has been religious or social art that counts. Confectioners mold candy into shapes of skulls and flowers for feast-day celebrations. Muralists line public buildings with vehement histories of oppression and revolution. For the rest, nudes, still lifes, etc. were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico...
...classicists who have been played have been badly man-handled. In all kindness, Spalding is just too old to handle the intricate rhythmical phraseology of Bach. And last Saturday, Koussevitzky gave a surprisingly careless and thoughtless performance of the Mozart Symphony in D Major ("Paris"). There was vehement distortion of dynamic effect in both Allegros; the Andantino last continuity through the effort to make it pretty...
...politico-economist, Laski acquired a brilliant international reputation. He is a great pal of Washington's more vehement New Dealers...