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India will be left in a disunited, chaotic condition by any move for independence. Withdrawal of foreign capital will ruin the young country's economy, while cleavages between Mohammedan, Hindu and northern seats will destroy any vestige of national unity, the Professor emphasized...
...Churchill withholding Indian independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when the war was over. With this courage and this vision we must take the offensive...
...people of this nation are following the leadership (such as is provided for them) in the crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...
...castaway on a Mediterranean isle. In the final scene, the castaway discovers the grotesque truth: the god fears him, knowing that the man's faith in him is all that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once...
...Roosevelt's message was built about the theme that Axis propagandists were trying to destroy confidence of the Allied nations in each other while Axis armies seek to "divide and conquer...