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...enters the White House, we will have a friend in him? A.: Why are you using "if?" Q.: What are his essential qualities? A.: Courage, hard work, culture, love of a job well done, a willing and reflective character. Q.: Does he have any faults? A.: Potted too (Pas du tout, or "Not at all"). Q. (edged with Gallic suspicion): That's too good to be true? A. (in most sagacious tones): You don't want me-his mother and best election agent-to unveil the weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals...
Ibbetson, based on the mistily romantic 19th century novel by George du Maurier, has to do with a young architect who meets the girl he once loved as a child in Paris, learns that she is married but continues to carry on a sort of astral affair with her in his dreams. The opera, like the book, juxtaposes scenes of fact and fantasy in a pre-Freudian demonstration of the relation between the inner and outer life. At Ibbetson's premiere, the hero's curiously frustrated longings were enough to reduce the audience to tears, but at last...
...call your attention to "A Negro Student at Harvard," by W.E.B. Du Bois, in the current Massachusetts Review? Du Bois describes the election of Clemens Morgan, a Negro student, as class orator of Harvard...
...liquid-level sensor that it is now being used on nuclear submarines to detect sea water in the launching tubes of Polaris missiles and in the ground-fueling system for some liquid-fueled missiles. Rod also envisions nonmilitary use of his device, has sold an ultrasonic measuring device to Du Pont for chemical gauging, another liquid-level sensor to a utility to measure the water level in a high-temperature boiler. Says Rod: "You have to keep pushing...
Last week Bremen had on display a huge (305 square yards) section of Lurçat's Le Chant du Monde, which will eventually be almost double that in size. "All the monumental arts," says Lurçat, "are having some kind of renaissance. In Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Caracas, Geneva, it is the same-the architects are making huge new buildings with great nude walls that cry out for tapestries." Le Chant du Monde may never decorate such a wall, for its most logical destination would be a French museum, where it would hang as an example...