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...personal, while the new music has to "grapple" with the objective problem of the times. Of course, he hastens to add, the old devices of melody, rhythm and strong feeling are still used, only "extended and enriched" and made more "objective." All this is reassuring reading but a hard pill to swallow, inasmuch as the radical moderns seemed to have failed through their very refusal to "grapple" with any basic emotional problems, and have hidden themselves behind a curtain of technique. They are afraid to admit that all music must of necessity be "subjective," and arise solely from the individual...
...wholly different destination, for society here is described as hurtling headlong toward the Right. The author postulates an intense economic depression after the war, the resultant final collapse of capitalism, and a great concentration of power in the hands of the President. He then dilutes this bitter pill by admitting that there will still be an elective process and there need be no brutality involved. Thus the Left and Right are balanced in eleven pages, but the honors go to the Left...
...supposed death of her fiance in action. Here some of the most vivid and spectacular war scenes actually filmed under fire are released by the Soviet government. Especially noteworthy is a long sequence showing the white clad U.S.S.R. troops advancing under fire to blow up an enemy pill-box with dynamite. The film has an unusual ending which smells like Hollywood and would spoil the plot if recorded here. The picture was produced in Russia; the dialogue is in Russian with English titles. Incidently the star, Zoya Fyodorva, bears a remarkable resemblance to Sonia Henie. (Hollywood please note...
...Otto Winkler. They were tired. There were no sleeping accommodations on T.W.A.'s Flight 3, due shortly on its way to Los Angeles. Winkler wanted to go to a hotel, sleep, take a train. Miss Lombard vetoed the idea, saying "I'll curl up and take a pill and pff I'll be asleep...
Later, the dome and telescope were swung onto Jupiter, but the planet appeared only as a very small pill, and the many moons which are its distinguishing feature were hidden...