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Such unstinting European praise has greeted Soprano Lear and Baritone Stewart ever since they stopped knocking truitlessly on impresarios' doors in the U.S. four years ago. Schooled in borscht belt hotels and summer stock, they both won Fulbright scholarships and in 1957 entered Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. There they were discovered by Director Carl Ebert of the Berlin City Opera (predecessor of the Deutsche Opera Berlin), who signed them both for his company. Their debuts-Stewart's as Escamillo in Carmen in 1958. Lear's as the Composer in Ariadne the next year...
Since joining the Faculty as an instructor in 1959, Watkins has taught courses in Greek and Latin comparative grammar, Cuneiform Hittite, and Phonemics. In 1954-55 he studied in Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship...
...Fulbright proposes an immediate start on a "concert of free nations'' that will knit more closely the Atlantic democracies, and those who would join them in a common goal. "This objective should be pursued as far as possible within the United Nations. In large measure, however, it must be pressed outside the U.N." With hearty approval, Fulbright cites Sir Anthony Eden's recent proposal that the Atlantic communities form a "political general staff," akin to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II, to meet today's monolithic Communist threat. But Fulbright would carry...
Thus emerged the "concert of Europe," conducted by Austria's Metternich-"a genuine community of nations which identified their common interests in preserving a rough balance of power and the basic integrity of the treaty ... It kept the peace for a hundred years." Fulbright's community would be limited to free nations (the "inner community" for Atlantic powers, and the "outer community" of free nations elsewhere), could start in existing institutions, such as NATO...
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). Concludes Fulbright: "In the words of the Spanish philosopher Salvador de Madariaga: 'The trouble today is that the Communist world understands unity but not liberty, while the free world understands liberty but not unity. Eventual victory may be won by the first of the two sides to achieve the synthesis of both...