Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Square Merchants Association is campaigning to draw residents from Lexington, Lincoln, Arlington, and other suburban towns into its shopping orbit, while Central Square is advertising that Harvard citizens can get what they want at Central Square--better and cheaper...
Current news reports would indicate that Russia may have inspired the Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...
Russia plainly hopes by degrees to wipe out our position in China. Yet this cannot be done overnight. It is by no means certain that the Chinese Communists want to subordinate themselves to Russia or that they wish to eliminate American contact, or that, if they do, they can succeed soon. No matter what the Chinese Communists want, China is still oriented toward the West in many ways commercial, educational, cultural...
...menus in the dining halls will not vary much. Hot mince ple or squash ple will be a choice given to everyone, and New England Plum Pudding will be served in all Houses with sweet and hard sauce. However, if you want outon you'd better go to Adams, for the other dining halls are serving vegetables soup...
Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...