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Playing down big-time athletics, Gallagher stressed high moral standards. In 1954, at the height of faculty fear of McCarthyism in the colleges, he dismissed the Senator with "It is time for us to remind an ambitious politician that the American college and university are welded into an anvil which has worn out many hammers." Last fall he faced another kind of problem: student editors began to give a campus newspaper a "Marxistoriented" sound. Gallagher, shunning censorship, discredited them in a fact-filled brief...
...husbands lay down their arms. But in production terms that idea has recurrently inspired more bad taste and ponderous bawdry than it was ever worth, and if The Happiest Girl is no more than middling lewd, it is so clangingly loud and heavy as to suggest marriage with the Anvil Chorus. Moreover, the lavish librettists have added Greek deities to Greek dames, offering scenes on an Olympus that, culturally, seems way below sea level. Furthermore, all the characters favor a modern idiom, so that when not dittying "Whoever is chaste has got to be chased," they talk of sponsors...
...sitting President. While, properly, the President is only occasionally conscious of the press, the White House regulars are day and night as conscious of Ike as of a close member of their family. His health, in fact, is one of their primary concerns. His travels are the anvil on which their personal lives are bent and twisted. They learn to remember key dates in his life better than he does. Except for Richard Nixon's kitchen debate with Khrushchev and the tremendously moving Warsaw crowd that greeted Nixon, all of my most vivid Washington bureau memories, I realized, were...
...silver-and-orange F8U Crusader jet fighters streaked smoothly down the Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary...
Less rare than any of these items, but never before recorded in full, is Das Rheingold, Wagner's thunder-throated masterpiece, presented by London (3 LPs, mono and stereo) in a superb performance. Conductor Georg Solti leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with anvil-stroking power; Kirsten Flagstad sings with serene beauty; and George London's Wotan towers with granitic strength. The majestically rolling accompaniment of the gods' procession to Valhalla is sure to lift almost any listener out of his seat...