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...reputation by exhaustive tours of Europe. Already an excellent technician, his interpretation of Romantic and Modern music have often been hostilely received by critics. His Ravel, and even more strikingly, his Chopin have a neat, precise touch that makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former teacher. On the other hand, his beautiful feeling for the earlier composers. Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart--has been widely and justifiably acclaimed. He is already under contract to Columbia to record the complete works of Chopin. Also...
...disproportionately wide field and gives alarming powers of accusation to the Attorney General. By allowing federal inquisitors to arraign any man remotely sympathetic to a foreign ideology, the President has opened the way for subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government...
...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...
Just because the University of Connecticut in a relatively small institution without hyper-thyroid press agents, let not Crimson football rooter hold the roseate opinion that Harvard will have everything its own way on Soldiers Field thin Saturday. Although there has not yet been devised any infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms...
...roughshod rides over the horsey set, the classic caricature never dared approach "Park Avenue" in naked triteness. Twenty years late, playwright George Kaufman and composer Arthur Schwartz are endeavoring to sell the public a brand of musical comedy that has long been by the way, and that must be hyper-professional to satisfy...