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...name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively engaged in containing China's expansionist policies and undermining its influence with Asian Communist parties...
Palms thrusting trustingly toward the audience, her head cocked confidently in song, Dinah gives emotional urgency to the tritest lyric; she seems still much the cheerleader she once was at Vanderbilt University (class of '38, sociology major), yet also in tune with life at 40. Last week her velveteen vibrato caressed the lyrics of Sentimental Journey and I'll Be Seeing You, and as she backed offscreen, her sign-off kiss floated out individually, so it seemed, to each of her 40 million or so viewers. A veteran of 444 quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues...
...TIME, Sept. 27). Unfortunately for Senhor Villa-Lobos, Magdalena seems like its librettists' first encounter with Broadway. They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the tropics and the Balkans. The only thing more incomprehensible than the plot is the notion that any one could follow it. It is a mess of pagan rites, political wrongs, an opera bouffe general (Hugo Haas), vociferous emerald miners, and the love of a bus driver (John Raitt) for a high-born...
...worst, background music is a cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before...
John Ballantine '42 contributes a boldly reasoned article, amply supported with facts, on the post-war industrial situation, and the adjustments that will be necessary to avoid economic collapse. Perhaps the tritest of the articles is the opening one by Editor Irwin Ross '40, who naively thinks that an allied declaration of the rights of man would win the Burmese knife-slingers over to our side...