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...route to Baltimore, he was asked about his Oregon debate with Harold Stassen. Said Dewey: "You know, one man told me that debate was just like a truck driver running over a baby, then deliberately driving forward and backward over the body." Then he added: "Of course, that's a little exaggerated...
...bounding 39-year-old Senator William Ezra Jenner has made hardly any splash at all in the U.S. Senate. Some weeks ago he decided that he would much rather be a big frog again along the banks of the Wabash. Last week he almost, but not quite, made his backward jump...
Robbing the Economic Cooperation Administration of some 25 percent of its effective strength would have seemed extremely unlikely one month ago in the face of an overwhelming American public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed...
Composer Berg dedicated this work to his teacher, Arnold Schonberg. But he had not built it on Schonberg's "twelve-tone" technique.* Between two fast, brightly dissonant movements, Berg sandwiched a melodic slow movement that had listeners gasping: the themes build to a climax, then run backward to a close. 1914, even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard...
...preliminary examination. They have not been concerned with diagnosis or remedies. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations. In order to make clear the context within which both conclusions and recommendations are to be understood, "Looking Backward" will summarize the content of the previous editorials...