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Most Americans in China, being civilians in uniform, are ready to go home, and the hell with it. They believe that they accurately reflect public opinion at home...
...ostracize composers whose music did not keep time to the Marxian metronome. Prokofiev's first Soviet piece, Symphonic Song, was scorned by Russian critics for its "morbid resignation" and its "tendencies of urbanized lyricism." Wrote Soviet critic A. Ostretsov: "We do not dispute Prokofiev's right to reflect the emotional world of 'superfluous' people in the West, with their rottenness and putrefaction . . . but we do not share the . . . humanistic sympathy with these persons." Prokofiev apparently weighed and understood the demands of Russia's musical dictatorship. He learned not to deviate from the acceptable line...
...clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...
...Chamber, the Attlee Government with its huge Labor majority had little to fear. The greater problems lay outside, and the debates would reflect them. Even as the session got under way, the Government had to rush troops home from the Continent to help unload food cargoes when 40,000 striking stevedores refused to work. Cried Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, until lately an expert in parliamentary disorder: "I am a socialist, not an anarchist, and I want order and reason in our industrial relations...
Patton called the press in for a retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...