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Bach: The Art of Fugue (E. Power Biggs, organist; Victor; 20 sides; $11). Like the late Ring Lardner (How to Write Short Stories), J. S. Bach demonstrated by doing. The Art of Fugue, his last great work, consists of 14 increasingly complex fugues on the same basic subject. Organist Biggs plays them soberly, soundly on Harvard University's limpid-toned "baroque" organ...
...place. History courses teach the bungling corruption of one after another of our American heroes. Government course strip the glamour off the gleaming facade of our administrative set-up. Psychology reduces emotion, patriotic or otherwise, to nothing more than a stimulus-response mechanism. And a course as basic as Ec A, by adding one and one, dos its part in exploding the myth of free competition in our capitalist society...
...summer you have come to recognize that in other respects the nation can no longer afford a policy of "Business as Usual." Academicians are faced with the recognition of two urgent demands of the defense effort: the crying needs of the organization in Washington for specialized talent, and the basic but competing need of a maintaining our higher education intact so far as possible. Under these conditions is it not somewhat inappropriate for you to urge upon us a policy of "Education as Usual"? Lincoln Gordon '34, Instructor in Government...
...hundred and fifty years ago this week, these defiant, visionary words were read and angrily debated up & down the length of the U.S. They were the ten freedoms for which the U.S. had fought, but they were not yet basic...
...pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton goods markets slumbered as mills turned away hundreds of clamoring buyers rather than sell at prices they thought...