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Counting the 138 hours directed at Latin America by Red China and Soviet Russia. Latin Americans are being bombarded by an overlapping 300 hours of Red propaganda a week. While this strident Red voice becomes something of a bore to Latin Americans, it is louder and longer than the Voice of America, which beams a mere 63 hours of Spanish-language broadcasts and 21 hours of Portuguese each week toward Latin America...
Algeria is certainly not the Congo, but last week, independent less than a month, it bore a definite outward resemblance. In cities and towns, in mountain fortresses and sun-baked desert camps, feuding factions waged a struggle for control. Government was paralyzed and more Europeans were getting out. With industry at a standstill, the U.S., working through church welfare agencies, was feeding one out of five Algerians. What saved Algeria from complete disintegration was a modicum of political maturity and an instinct for survival that made the rival forces at least halfway willing to explore compromises. Emerging from these maneuvers...
...much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore the mixed smell of blood and roses...
Agreeable Evasiveness. When the government fell in 1834, half-demented King William IV picked Melbourne as Prime Minister because he liked him. "I think it's a damned bore," sighed Melbourne. The populace agreed. "He is certainly a queer fellow to be Prime Minister," remarked a politician. His job, Melbourne believed, was chiefly to keep peace among his quarrelsome Cabinet ministers. By a policy of "agreeable evasiveness," he shored up his shaky government, weathered crises no one expected him to survive. He backed reform measures when he had to, but most of the time he happily saw them defeated...
Miss Boron bore on doggedly through the final chorale, but she stumbled frequently over many notes and missed others completely. Her articulation was hap-hazard, and she often changed registration in the middle of phrases against all musical sense. Her rhythm was shaky, and in some fugues wilfully distorted to the point where all meter had wholly vanished...