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Album of Danish Songs (Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Columbia; 4 sides). A group of appealing ditties sung with masculine ardor by the finest of contemporary heroic tenors...
Henry Travers does an excellent job as the fumbling, humbly heroic Norwegian mayor; so does Dorris Bowdon (Mrs. Nunnally Johnson) as the slayer of a Nazi officer who tries to seduce her. In the story's most controversial role, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the Nazi commander, looks more like a cold-blooded Junker than like the unmilitary officer described by Steinbeck...
...actually had to say about his symphony's relationship to "life, destiny and the U.S. soil": "I hoped to express qualities of our people which our popular dance music, because of its very nature, cannot reveal. Our people are more than pleasure-loving. We also have qualities of heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation of more tender moods." Any one that heard the symphony would have to admit that...
...case is far from clear, but unless much that we know of these men is false, there is only, one conclusion that can be made. Both men were militant anti-Nazi, who helped in Warsaw's futile, heroic resistance. It scarcely seems possible that they were guilty of "subversive activity and espionage." Was it their only crime that they were Socialists, and Poles...
...evolutionary spiritual growth of the race. That repentance is needed now for rebirth ... to lessen its load of sin. Sin is only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse...