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American democracy's Big Show is over. With all but a few scattered Western returns in, Fatal Tuesday follows the pattern of every off-year election save that of 1934 since the Civil War--resurgence of the President's loyal opposition. The Republican Party, which in the heyday of the New Deal held but a third of Congress and carried but two states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine...
...feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without...
...pattern of home propaganda in Germanv became clear. The Nazi leaders were telling the German people that they could expect nothing but the most savage treatment if Germany lost the war. Simultaneously, an equally clear pattern of foreign propaganda, beamed to the U.S. and British people, began to appear. It was a complex of insidious suggestion: that the Germans were going to practice new cruelties on their prisoners, that the Churchill and Roosevelt Governments were cruel enough to reply in kind, that they were too weak to reply in kind. If this was the dilemma which vexed London and Washington...
...dreams of freedom had come to rest. It was one of the last unoccupied lands in the world. This land had fought for and established a revolutionary principle-political liberty. If that succeeded, the world's weary history of successive tyrannies would change. If it failed, the bloody pattern of European and Asiatic history would merely have asserted itself in the world's last great unoccupied Lebensraum. It was with these thoughts in mind that Spinster Martineau looked at the U.S., 1834. And she looked at it on a scale that would have horrified her fellow spinsters...
...Germany ("Dutchmen must not only work with their hands, they must also use weapons to guard Europe"). To enforce their decree the Nazis said that Dutch parents "who do not collaborate in the new order will have their children taken away from them to be molded in the Nazi pattern." These were the children who, in 1940, when Nazi cars entering Holland drove off ferries, politely opened the doors and announced: "Gentlemen, welcome to England...