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Plank agreed with Sohn, pointing out that the unocmmitted nations will "do their utmost" to keep East-West conflicts out of the General Assembly in order to work on the "mammoth array of problems which they face...
...spite of the great increase in U.N. membership which has reduced Western ing power to 23 out of 96 countries, several Faculty members believe that the United States has further damaged its position by failing to use U.N. facilities the utmost. Roger D. Fischer '43, lecturer on Law, claimed that the U.S. has more concerned with the short term objectives of standing up to than with the long term goal of uniting the world in a system of international and order. The U.S., he said, "has paid lip service to making the U.N. strong, has never let that goal regulate...
...into immobility and silence . . . Globov liked these people-kindly men of whom perhaps half the world was terrified . . . How deluded was the mercenary Western press whose scribblers portrayed these men as somber villains. In reality they couldn't be nicer . . . One senior interrogator, employed in cases of the utmost gravity, used his leisure knitting gloves and embroidering doilies...
...crux of his philosophy rests on this concept of the life-enhancing work of art. These objects were the noblest achievements of mankind and of the utmost importanced for the attainment of the Good Life. In "Duveen," S.N. Behrman quotes B.B. referring to a painting of Il Salvatore Benedicente owned by the Louvre. It gives an especially arresting example of B.B.'s application of his philosophy to works...
Moussorgsky left the orchestration of this work even less complete than that of Boris, and the plot is far more complicated and considerably less powerful than that of his earlier chef d'oeuvre. A production of it is therefore obliged, musically and dramatically, to take the utmost care to clear up the murk caused by its incompleteness and intricacy...