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...post-World War I Paris, music, like politics, nearly foundered in a sea of talk. Talkiest was a group called "The Six." "The Six" talked more than they composed, got the Left Bank dizzy with conversation. As the years passed the one woman member of "The Six," GermaineTailleferre,got married; another member, Louis Durey, gave up both composing and talking. But two of them actually got around to a large batch of serious composing. One of these was a Swiss, Arthur Honegger-famed for his symphonic imitation of a train (Pacific 231)-the other was Darius Milhaud...
Last month Archibald MacLeish, poet and Librarian of Congress, blamed himself and other post-World War I writers for the cynical pacifism of U. S. undergraduates (TIME, June 3). Such fine and honest writers as Hemingway and Dos Passos, said he, had done their job too well, had left the younger generation immunized not only against phony patriotism but against all moral judgments. LIFE asked a number of writers for comments, this week prints the answers. Samples...
Curzon Line. By last week the British had delved into post-World War I history and had discovered even better reasons for excusing Russian occupation of part of Poland. In late 1919, when the new Republic of Poland was set up in business, map-makers of the British Foreign Office drew a north-south line halfway across Eastern Europe to represent what they considered should be the "legitimate frontier" between newly reborn Poland and Russia. This line started from the easternmost boundary of East Prussia and went directly south through Brest-Litovsk and some miles west...