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While he praises the house teams, dances, plays, and committees, yet he remarks further on, "And then you notice that most of this sturm and drang is concentrated in the hands of a few restless individuals so oddly ambitious that they elect themselves to responsible offices, and so slightly occupied that they have time to fulfill the attendant chores. The rest of the student body pursues its own sweet, egocentric way hardly disturbed by the periodic abullitions of these willing horses. More, you come to realize that any three men you select at random will have more friends outside...
...spontaneity that might have been wished for. There is a passage in the last movement in which there is no theme but just a general movement of jollity among the strings. Even the "lyric pathos" of the andante perhaps never intended to possess all the profundity that "Sturm and Drang" commentators embillish it with. More Mozart the audience seemed to want, and certainly we could enjoy it more often than the current programmes have allowed...
That Germans have no der Drang zu rüsten (will-to-arms), preferring disarmament by everyone, was the theme of Adolf Hitler's rousing peace speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...becomes a dues-collecting unit of freemasonry, he will step out into the world tolerably well-acquainted with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Tennyson and other literary worthies. He may even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement his thesis...
...student in answering a question asking for the definition of "Drang nach Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...