Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR JAZZ Perhaps it is Morroe Berger's impatience with the "new conservatism," with which he associates William L. Grossman's critique in The Heart of Jazz, that leads him to distort...
...By mid-January, approximately 400 students had arrived in the U. S. and the influx showed no signs of abating...
...Grossman "equates the whole of jazz with one of its elements"—the religious element...
...It is estimated that by September (the start of the next academic year) as many as 700 Hungarians will be studying at American universities through the auspices of WUS and the other agencies working with the service...
...However, an erroneous impression may have been created regarding those organization inThe New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...The idea of language training institute was a unique experiment in the annals of refugee resettlement in the U. S. Financed bv the Ford and Rockefeller Foundation, the administration of the training courses was given to the Institute of International Education...
...How could a reviewer possibly miss this emphasis on non-religious as well as religious elements...
...One could hardly imagine a more unhealthy and dangerous situation...
...Americans have so "enlightened" themselves about sex that they have grown a shell consisting of a mixture of cynicism and the wrong kind of childish awe, under which there exists a constant preoccupation with the subject...
...DEAR EDITOR JAZZ Perhaps it is Morroe Berger's impatience with the "new conservatism," with which he associates William L. Grossman's critique in The Heart of Jazz, that leads him to distort Professor Grossman's contentions ("Recent Books on Jazz,'- NL, March 18...
...moreover, no channels were available to obtain these records...
...The staggering problems of such a burgeoning program of nationwide scholarship placement can well be imagined...
...Arnold Beichman's "Does the UN Endanger Peace...
...In addition, from all across the country scholarship offers were pouring in...
...The lack of familiarity with English was met head-on by establishing special English-language training courses designed to provide these young Hungarians with the rudiments of the language whose teaching had been forbidden in all but a few of their schools...
...the Institute of International Education, long active in the exchange of foreign students and the evaluation of their records...
...On the other hand, we have the strong puritan tradition which still stamps our whole culture...
...At the same time, a number of other well-intentioned individuals and groups at Boulder indicated similar and often conflicting offers for scholarship aid...
...and the International Rescue Committee, one of the refugee resettlement organizations with a very large case load of students...
...Perhaps one could best express the sad American misunderstanding of sex by saying that we apply it instead of living it...
...New York City Rosalind Cherry HUNGARIAN STUDENTS William Petersen's "Colorado U. Students Welcome Hungarians" (Nl., March 4) was an enlightening comment on the welcome being extended to Hungarian student refugees by the American university community...
...New York City Harry Torczyner...
...Grossman's well-balanced critique seem priggish, Professor Berger says that the author considers jazz "not really sexual," that he makes jazz safe for the "Republicam family man," and so on...
...Grossman really contending that New Orleans jazz sometimes "contains a pronounced sexual element," and that this element "is direct, earthy and unsentimental" (page 70...
...Petersen will agree that sometimes it may be necessary to wait little while for - good thing...
...What Dr...
...Americans are continuously "bothered" by sex because it is not accepted in its entirety as a part of both physical and spiritual life...
...To date, no other story about this reception has appeared in u national publication...
...Dr...
...It is treated as something apart, something always there in the shadow of one's life, demanding attention and disguised by hypocrisy...
...It may surprise a reader of the review to find Dr...
...Furthermore, except for a tiny handful none of the students possessed -knowledge of English adequate to permit immediate entry into the full rigors of an American academic curriculum...
...Incidentally, it is ironic that the reviewer should drag in Republicanism...
...It is explained elsewhere that "Christian" in these passages means "Judeo-Christian...
...The lack of official university documents was offset by a very careful and elaborate system of interviewing, screening and testing each student...
...Just before Christmas, an official offer of 20 scholarships from the University of Colorado at Boulder was received by WUS in answer to the appeal letter...
...He maintains, however, that the music is not aphrodisiac, and cites authority...
...Men are not driven to sexual violence there because they are not constantly goaded and restrained at the same time...
...Precisely because of their puritan heritage, Americans have turned to a kind of early, practical sex education utterly destructive to that delicate web through which sex is tied into the essence of living...
...Subsequently, as larger numbers of refugee students passed through the Kilmer Reception Center in New Jersey, additional institutes were established, eventually handling total of more than 650 students...
...An attempt was then made to match each student to an appropriate scholarship ofler...
...In Europe, one is not aware of sex the way one is here...
...It must be remembered that practically none of the Hungarian students was able to produce authentic records of his academic career...
...For Mr...
...Grossman actually says on this subject, and he says it again and again, is that "the very core of the substantive content of New Orleans jazz is a synthesis of the secular with the religious, of human vitality with Christian feeling or spirit" (page 92) ; "the synthesis of this religious element with the music's robust vitality lies at the very heart of New Orleans jazz" (page 43) ; New Orleans jazz is "characterized deeply by synthesis of Christian feeling and robust vitality" (page 297...
...Grossman's part of the book contains at least a dozen affirmations of this synthesis as the basis of New Orleans jazz, and there are frequent references to the music's "earthiness...
...New York City Albert Mark Director, WUS Public Relations SEX I read Arthur Oesterreicher's excellent review of Professor Pitirim Sorokin's book The American Sex Revolution (NL, March 25) with much interest and would like to add the following comment...
...I am sure Mr...
...New York City Emil L. Vernei UN Your March 18 issue illustrates once again the importance of The New Leader to anyone interested in the facts of international life...
...By now, more than 200 have accepted scholarships...
...It was agreed that a student's name would be submitted to only one institution at a time, to avoid the ill will that would develop from multiple submissions when a student rejected all but one of a number of acceptances...
...Petersen refers to the ponderous workings of these agencies and mentions specifically "the World University Service, [which] months after it had agreed to route Hungarian students [had] yet to send its first...
...There is a very important and typical facet of American sex-obsession which I have not yet seen discussed: On the one hand, sex is constantly and vulgarly played upon by every kind of advertising and entertainment...
...The total number of scholarship openings was close to 600 from 300 schools...
...He states that Dr...
...This kind of tension is unknown in Continental societies because the factor corresponding to our puritan ideals has been overcome by a gradual re-evaluation...
...Once a student was placed in an English-language training course, it was possible to begin an evaluation of his entire dossier...
...the fact that THE NEW LEADER'S is the first such report is all to its credit...
...volved in bringing the Hungarian students to Colorado...
...V. K. Krishna Menon...
...In this letter, World University Service was indicated as the central body for referral of all scholarships...
...The tension resulting from these two diametrically opposed pressures can, and often does, lead to the psychiatrist or to violent sexual attacks...
...and John Scott's "Behind India's Foreign Policy" explode some of the pious conventional lies generally served the American public with respect to the super-parliament on the East River and Mr...
...William L. Grossman was one of the "bright young men" of the New Deal...
...Apparently eager to make Dr...
...To set the record straight, here are the facts: On November 30, one week after the first refugee student arrived in the U. S., three organizations issued a joint appeal to 1,300 college presidents requesting scholarships for the incoming Hungarians...
...These three groups were: World University Service, with 10-year history of refugee student placement...
Vol. 40 • April 1957 • No. 14
