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...Death has become a dirty word, writes British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer in the October issue of Encounter, and is taking the place of sex as an off-color theme. "Whereas copulation has become more and more 'mentionable,' particularly in the Anglo-Saxon societies, death has become more and more 'unmentionable' as a natural process . . . Our great-grandparents were told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes or cabbages; our children are likely to be told that those who have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest...
...parting duet ("O gentle heart, would we again were drifting/ Far from this world of waking"), but is often pale and fragile as the illustrations in English children's books. Walton, after all, is neither Italian nor Russian, and no one need complain if he goes politely Anglo-Saxon in the clutches. His one baldly passionate scene is the orchestral storm that accompanies the lovers to bed behind their curtain; its three thundering climaxes are almost embarrassingly literal ("You have to pass the night somehow," quips Walton...
...singing voice, doesn't so much sing a song as suggest that he is singing one. His best: Loch Lomond and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Mary Martin was brilliantly funny in a scene from Madame Butterfly, and happily belted out a long-but not long enough-succession of Anglo-American tunes...
Musically, the opera is a pioneer work since it covers a neglected field--the midwestern musical tradition. The simple, strongly harmonic folk songs in Thompson's score are traceable to English folk music in Anglo-Saxon times...
...with Czechoslovakia against Israel's purchase of Mystère IV jets from France. Nasser insisted that the Czech trade was strictly "a one-shot deal," and no Communist technicians would accompany the arms. The Westerners were only partly reassured; the British tartly reminded Nasser that the 1954 Anglo-Egyptian pact calls for the reactivation by Britain of Suez Canal air bases in the event of an attack on Turkey, i.e., on NATO. Said a British diplomat: "We don't want to find MIGs on those airfields...