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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...note that he sounded was his denial that the New Deal was liberal. Said he: a liberal is a man who believes in freedom for himself and other people. Economic freedom can mean very little to a man who is starving. "If free economic enterprise is unable to provide jobs and products for this country, then obviously some other system should be tried. . . . It is on this point that the liberal and the reactionary really find their issue: The liberal believes that the purpose of Government is to make men free and, thus having freedom, men will be able...
World's End is the first novel this world novelist has written about the world of nations. "The field is so enormous, the issues so crucial," he says in a note to the reader, "that I, as a novelist, have for years been running away from them." The better to see them, perhaps; for the setting of World's End is not contemporary : it is a novel about Europe and America between 1913 and 1919. Upton Sinclair lived in Europe before World War I; he knew some of the peace conferees of 1919 and some of the journalists...
Died. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmermann, 81, German Foreign Minister during World War I, author of the notorious "Zimmer mann Note" of pneumonia; in Berlin. In January 1917, the British Naval Intelligence intercepted and decoded a note from Zimmermann to the German Minis ter in Mexico: If the U. S. entered the war, Germany wanted a Mexican alli ance, promised U. S. territory as booty...
...employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left-hand pizzicato (plucked note), the double harmonic, the staccato in which the bow is bounced on the strings. He could fiddle a barnyard scene, once awakened an inn with a lifelike rendition of a baby crying...
...note: The Crimson regrets its error as to Mr. French's status in the Department of Music. But the contention that, with only occasional exceptions, instructors have shown themselves unable to "organize material and point out salient facts" still stands. And we have been corroborated by other instructors in our opinion that graduate students familiar with Freshman courses could handle the job efficiently...