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...Last night a masterpiece was born, and it will outlive the lot of us," declared London's Sunday Graphic. Not all the critics were that ecstatic, but London seemed to agree last week that Benjamin Britten's seventh opera, Billy Budd, was far & away his best...
Some of Bryant's best pages describe the fighting of Wellington's army in Spain. His account of the battle of Waterloo is a model of brevity, exact and graphic. But it is old England itself which most excites Bryant, its landed wealth, its civilization, its regard for personal liberty, its native good sense. No mere passionless chronicler, Historian Bryant knows what he likes and doesn't like. "True aristocracy, after true religion," he writes, "is the greatest blessing a nation can enjoy." And the older England had enjoyed that blessing, along with several lesser ones-including...
...Courier-Journal asked, what could really be done by the free nations about Perón and La Prensa? In London, where meat-hungry Britons have tightened their belts while they dickered over the price of Argentine meat, Humorist A. P. Herbert wrote a doughty answer in the Sunday Graphic...
Maurits Escher is one of Europe's most original graphic artists, and an extremely skilled one, but his talent has not brought him much fame. At 52, he lives a pinched life with his family in the town of Baarn (pop. 15,000), two miles from Queen Juliana's Soestdijk Palace. He works hunched over a table by an upstairs window, making woodcuts and lithographs that sell badly. Escher seldom has a chance to show his prints, but last week the Baarn High School had 30 of them on display...
...there is a graphic account of Newscaster Thomas' leg-breaking fall from a horse, and of his litter-borne passage over the Hump to India...