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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Taylor campaigned through the flatlands and the Smokies he thumped Estes Kefauver for virtually every integrationist crime except the Emancipation Proclamation, denounced him for turning his back on Tennessee and the South by voting for the civil rights bill in the Senate last spring. "If I had been in the Senate, there would have been 19 instead of 18 Senators voting against the civil rights bill. Every Democratic Congressman from Tennessee voted against that civil rights bill, but Senator Kefauver voted for it.* Every state is entitled to two Senators. New York has two Senators to represent the people there...
Burden of the London conference was that while much remains to be done, far more has been accomplished in the last quarter-century than in the previous 2,500 years. Except for specialized and usually local deficiencies in the diet, such as iodine, malnutrition is now known not to be a major cause of malformations. Stress and strain on the mother play a role in some birth defects (they have been blamed for harelip and cleft palate), but just what is far from clear...
...sung by Licia Albanese and Charles K. L. Davis, Composer Taylor's score, shot through with Debussyan and Wagnerian echoes, still sounded deft, elegant, and admirably welded to the libretto's moods. Except in its ingenious weaving of French folk songs into the dream sequences, the score rarely pretends to be anything other than expert incidental music. But that is enough for Composer-Critic Taylor, who began his career as a piano-roll puncher, vaudeville entertainer and poster artist, is not embarrassed to recall that he narrated Walt Disney's Fantasia, and thinks that U.S. music needs...
...Gibraltar and Malta, Singapore was in reality a defenseless, polyglot commercial town of Chinese. Japanese, Indians, Jews and British who were as divided on their feelings about the war as they were in their peacetime pursuits: "East was East, and West was West, and the twain did not meet except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned the war to their own advantage; fishermen rowed out before dawn to gather fish that...
...legendary West, women are supposed to be out of place except possibly as dance-hall girls. In fact, social historians have built an entire theory of American male behavior (putting women on pedestals, etc.) on the notion that females were scarce and cherished in the old West. The theory is open to question. This book, for one, suggests that, in the West as elsewhere, behind the man behind the gun stood a little woman...