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Just Plain Doctor. The reason for Nkrumah's move was not displeasure but competition. Even in Ghana, readers prefer news to propaganda, and even in Nkrumah's Ghana, readers still have a choice. The Daily Graphic, which is owned by London's Daily Mirror group, almost never calls Nkrumah Osagyefo; he is usually "the President" or "Dr. Nkrumah"-a reference to his honorary LL.D. from Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. Open criticism of Nkrumah is not healthy in Ghana, but when the Graphic disapproves of the presidential policies, it simply runs no editorial column...
Most British papers piously editorialized about Dr. Fisher's "brilliant administrative gifts" and wide influence among "Christians of many allegiances," but the Daily Mirror also stated bluntly that he failed "in conveying the message of Christianity powerfully in this hard and avaricious age." While the valedictories were still being pronounced, the Anglican convocation rustled with rumors about Dr. Fisher's successor, chosen by the Prime Minister and appointed by the Queen. After two days came the word: the new Primate of All England, leader of 40 million Anglicans, religious mentor to the royal family and to Parliament, will...
...outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal club," he recalled later, and he hated...
...worst victims are subject to terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...rhapsodic duet between the heroine, expertly portrayed by Soprano Judith Raskin, and the officer ("No rival heart/ No rival wife/ Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera's weakness is its sameness of tone, its tendency to pile layer upon layer of melody, its failure to etch a real musical profile. Deseret has the musical makings for half a dozen operas but the ideas for scarcely...