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...Doubtless, some of these proposals will help. But unless the critic takes a more constructive view than Downes expresses in his you-can't keep-a-good-musician-down theory, neither technical training for him nor decentralization for music will keep him from hurting artists. And unless the public realizes that the critic, for from being a God of Sound, frequently goes home a "defeated man," the true defeat will continue to be rung up on the side of music and the musician...
...Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang Kai-shek since they went to military school together in Japan...
...zanne would doubtless be shocked by the modern artists who paint from imagination-and most of whom (Picasso, Braque and Duchamp) credit him with showing the way. For him, nature was everything, in spite of the fact that what he kept seeing in nature was, he insisted, "the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all put into perspective...
...about one-fifth of India's population), served notice that they meant to set up as independent states when British rule ended. They were prosperous Travancore, heavily Moslem Sind and Moslem-run Bengal, scene of some of the worst Moslem v. Hindu disorders in recent months. That was doubtless only the beginning of Mountbatten's troubles as (probably) the last of 20 Viceroys...
...then, too, FitzGerald had begun to wonder if his lonely, esthetical life were not a huge mistake-"[a] seedy dullness ... a ... total failure and mess." He proceeded to complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...