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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade ago Samuel (Adagio for Strings) Barber wrote a piece of music for Dancer Martha Graham called Cave of the Heart. It dealt with a Medea-like woman whose consuming love turned to hate and revenge; the score followed the choreography closely in mood and motion. Last week Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Philharmonic-Symphony played Barber's recomposition of the same scenes, called Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance. It turned out to be a meatier work for full symphony than as a dance accompaniment, with the same virtues-and the same faults-that have made Barber...
...modern crisis has pushed the agnostic and the disaffected to new dimensions and new depths in such a way that they find relevance again in certain features of the Christian understanding of life. On the other hand . . . the church has begun to produce theologians and critics who have dealt authoritatively with culture and the arts, as well as artists of genuine stature . . . Religion has a depth which art needs lest it become tempted to estheticism. Religion, on the other hand, is expressed most profoundly through the forms which constitute the proper concern...
Europeans expect few soldiers to understand that domestic politics are realities to be dealt with and not exasperations to be bulldozed out of the way, that troops in the field are useless unless supported by a sound economy at home, that the cold war could be lost by subversion in the factories as well as by defeat at the front. Gruenther not only understands, but often startles ministers by reciting production figures of their own countries that they do not know themselves, amazes politicians by quoting election figures down to the tenth of a percentage point. As a result...
Alumni booster clubs and similar athletic recruiting bodies were dealt an economic blow last week when the Internal Revenue Bureau ended their tax free status. Athletic scholarships as such were not affected, but the bureau will tax alumni monies used to pay for campus visits of prospective athletes...
Internationally, the result dealt a heavy blow to France's sagging prestige. There was little worry that France would desert the Western cause, but it would be no better partner in it. At best, any French government formed from the new Assembly seemed doomed to linger between a balk and a breakdown. At international tables, France's place would not be the "empty chair" of which Sir Winston Churchill once warned. But it was likely to be a chair occupied by a diminished man, hesitant to commit his nation to new exertions, uncertainly representing a negative mandate...