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Symbolized by this puppet Pauline was the bulk of last week's "popular" opposition to conscription. Among the articulate minorities which frightened Congress were many sincere, substantial, respected groups. But in sum they made as weird a hash as was ever dumped on Washington...
...scholarship, he visited Paris, returned with only one finished painting, but with his head full of ideas. Though he went on painting portraits for a living, he spent his spare time turning out weird pictures of hardhanded, black-skinned coffee workers. In 1935, Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Exhibition gave him an honorable mention for a Negro painting called Coffee, Brazilians finally gave him a job teaching painting at the University of Brazil...
...most typically, most restlessly American is a British-born Irish-Pole: Leopold Antony Stokowski. Bored with the daily routine of polishing up well-known classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with relief, but agreed sadly that the Orchestra would never be quite...
...orchestra, is probably the most gratifying surprise of all the 150 albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...