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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is that, though they can find plenty of substitutes for blacklisted symphonies and operas, Nazis on dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nazi System | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...American Youth Congress (Mon. 4:15 p. m. MBS.) Peace is discussed by Senators James Pinckney Pope and Elbert Duncan Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...clock one morning last week several hundred young men filed silently into the university buildings, barricaded doors and corridors. By daybreak enraged Rightist students found their university had been taken over by the United Socialist Youth of Mexico. When Rector Chico Goerne arrived in his office, the Socialists marched him out again. The Rightists charged at the doors, clambered up walls, were driven back by revolver shots. The Leftists held the buildings all day. One student lay dead and five injured when Government police finally smashed in, arrested or dispersed the Socialists, recaptured the university for the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rightist Fortress | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plain Talker | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction of the Philadelphia Zoo. Critic Dorothy Grafly of the Philadelphia Record coldly reported: "Even the heads seem parts screwed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Will & Willies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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