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...drought of the past two weeks is ever, with Count Basic moving into the RKO Boston. This would be good news if the memories of how Duke Ellington's engagement was botched up weren't so strong. If you caught the date, to band was put so far backstage as to be practically out in the street, and the result was only a jumble of noise, rather than music. Even worse was the choice of numbers which Duke was forced to play...
...Corps Reserve had a large chunk of the undergraduate population; most of them have been called and are in basic training by now. A final contingent will be gone by the months...
...could look upon a relief map of American ideas, it would become entirely obvious that there is no level ground in the United States. There is no common plain of basic beliefs and doctrines. The South would appear as rough terrain, unshaped and untilled; the North as chaotic, volcanic land, constantly changing, never settled. Yet our mapmakers deceive us with their shiny flat charts of common ideals, freedom for all, malice towards none. They make war on those who would alter this idealistic map and make speeches against those who might threaten their imaginative portraits. But in all their speeches...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
Within this framework, says Author Allen, will be action "deep in implication." Subthemes will concern the effects of revenge as a racial policy, "the sentimental tradition that we are a merciful and kindly people," the acts of savagery that may arise out of "infantile compulsions." But basic to all will be the idea that the first Americans were neither revolutionaries nor reorganizers. They were "disinherited," and "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...