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...claims to be a "qualified New Dealer." When the Columbia Law Review remarked that a contribution from Tutt, which it had just published, aroused the suspicion that Tutt was a bit of a fascist, the old man cracked back that "people who lived in glass houses had better refrain from throwing stones. . . ." Whereupon Columbia offered, and Tutt accepted, an honorary LL.D...
Wrote the united churchmen: "After all that has befallen the Jewish citizens of our country, there is now taking place something so monstrous that it is impossible for us to refrain from addressing...
...McKittrick was in the U.S. this year-he came out through southern France before the Nazis occupied it, and returned through Italy on a diplomatic visa (which the State Department did not obtain for him). While in the U.S. he did not comment on the fact that the Nazis refrain from using the Axis majority on the board of directors for unneutral undertakings. To all such queries he replied: "Remember, I'm neutral." Once he amplified this: "The policy of the bank can only be to remain entirely outside all matters of politics...
...works in chamber music fit the parallel. Both Beethoven and Eliot are working with the most difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage of both arts, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal coinage, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal transactions...
Rule 2. He must look good-but not too good-in newsreels and portraits. U.S. voters like their candidates big, broad-shouldered, modestly handsome. Citizens generally refrain from voting for a politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...