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Show Business. With so many on the scene, Paul's pilgrimage got a predictably heavy play in the world's press. Front pages bloomed in a gaudy array of Holy Land route maps and pious headlines: PAUL KNEELS WHERE JESUS...
Despite this array of talent, the big bugaboo for the Crimson team may be Columbia's defense. They employ ball control and use a tight, aggressive man-to-man defense--the very formula which enabled Trinity to upset Harvard before vacation...
Miniature Macy's. Most market women started out as simple farm wives tramping into town to sell their homegrown produce. Those with a taste for trade soon bought out other peasants and moved into business full time-offering everything from mangoes to a bewildering array of cosmetics, jewelry, shoes, shirts and shawls, plus whisky from Scotland, cutlery from Germany and nylons from the U.S. From the Caribbean and Central America down through the Andes to Chile, they serve as supermarket, liquor store and miniature Macy's all rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids...
...wake of the Kremlin's retreat in the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets "have renounced the policy of high risks in dealing with the West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia may make it far easier for the West to reach agreements with the Reds. The problems include the deeply significant rift with Red China, the slackening of revolutionary ardor at home, and the Soviet Union's growing domestic economic troubles...
Shostakovich explores every twist in the tale with a lively assortment of musical styles, and the music sustains the entire drama. The heroine, who despite her crimes is meant to be "a ray of light in the kingdom of darkness," is described in lyrical and eloquent themes, while an array of jarring, brassy polkas, gallops and mazurkas evoke the absurdity that surrounds her. In the revision, Shostakovich has tightened and refined both music and libretto, producing a work more polished and subdued -and considerably more singable...