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...consider that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is one of the few Communist Parties to which history has confided decisive tasks from the viewpoint of the world revolutionary movement. The revolutionary crisis ... in the United States ... is near . . . The American Communist Party must be ready to meet the crisis fully armed to take over the direction of the future class...
...think the great creative age of orchestra music begins with Mozart and ends with Wagner and that this should be reflected in orchestral programs. Of course all musical taste is subjective; but I should not want Professor Bruner's viewpoint on this subject to be the only one expressed in your columns. William Henry Chamberlin
Even while running a busy law firm. Strong kept an attentive eye on the arts. His diary provides an informal cultural history of 19th century New York, written from the viewpoint of an enlightened conservative. It is crammed with shrewd comments on the music of Beethoven ("the Byron of Musicians") and Mozart ("the king of Melody"), brightened by impromptu reviews of Jenny Lind's singing ("marvelously executed") and Edwin Booth's acting ("carefully studied"). Strong found time to read the classics of his day as they appeared, and appraised them with instinctive good sense...
...than expediency. The New Deal revolution can be halted, modified or turned into better channels. But it cannot be rolled back to 1932 or 1928. To the end of the Chicago fight there were 500 delegates who seemed untouched by this argument, who stoutly refused to trade out their viewpoint. At a time when circumstances call urgently to the Republican Party to make a winning fight, this firm stand of the 500 seemed a mixture of nostalgia and conviction...
...saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have the students, 47 to 1, demand his reinstatement. Dean William H. Nes, unable to change the students' viewpoint, resigned himself. The trustees are now looking for a successor. Said Milwaukee's Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins, himself a high churchman: "We stand in between Protestantism and Romanism. There was a group of students that was adhering absolutely to Romanism...