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...will deny that the present-day German Army is probably the best in the world. Give ear to what the man responsible for that Army says of voluntary enlistment. In Mein Kampf (p. 794, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940 ed.) Hitler says: "... With the enormously increased demands of today that the war service makes upon the individual, a two years' service is perhaps barely sufficient in order to turn the untrained young man into a trained soldier. On the front we all had before our eyes the terrible consequences resulting for young soldiers who were not thoroughly educated in the craft...
...Harvard. There is need for making a distinction between such misuse of the teacher's position, and what may be legitimately involved in his work. The teacher is often asked--and rightly so--to relate whatever he is teaching, whether ancient civilization, or semantics, or the classical tradition, to present-day problems and issues. The student wants to know, and rightly, the relevance of his subject of study to the world in which we live. In the humanities and social sciences this will, sooner or later, bring up the question of values. It is nearly impossible for a teacher...
...regard to the soloists, I think it's extremely unfair to call their music inferior to the work they did before 1931. I can enjoy Benny Carter's present-day work just as much as the stuff he played with the Chocolate Dandles; and Muggsy Spanier with his own outfit gives me as many kicks as Muggsy Spanier with the Mound City Blue Blowers...
Grey-cast, billiard-bald Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, deviser of the frequency modulation system of broadcasting, has twice in his time revolutionized radio-first by the regenerative, or feedback, circuit, which outmoded crystal sets; next by his superheterodyne hookup, the basis for present-day one-dial tuning. His FM system has all the earmarks of another, and more sweeping revolution. Neither sunspots, lightning, electric razors, icebox motors, telephone dials, switches, bed warmers nor passing street cars can ruffle its calm...
Thus speaks Igor Strawinsky in his autobiography, about his opera-oratorio, "Oedipus Rex". Even a casual hearing confirms the fact that for his choral idiom Strawinsky has turned back to the principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard...