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Counselor Brownell soon displayed a real talent for efficient administration-and if there was anything the Department of Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in...
UNION leaders still talk to their members in depression-born slogans that sound as incongruous in our full-employment economy as a campaign to make "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" the national anthem. In the union lexicon, the term "Big Business" remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet...
As an epitaph for the (estimated) 20.-ooo dead of Budapest, a Hungarian in Vienna quoted a phrase from Virgil: Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, which translates: "Some avenger will some time arise from our bones." The question was, when?
Haydon believes that in the heteronomous (extrinsic) theory "the composer translates into sounds the feeling that is in him prior to the musical composition." In this theory, "composition is the translation of life feelings into tone; the music sounds the way the emotions feel."
With a contract for two piano rolls a week, Scholes and his wife moved to Switzerland, which was kinder to his bronchitis, and settled down to write a compendium for the common, or musically uneducated music lover. The famed Dr. Johnson waggishly defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge." Scholes...