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...TIME, Nov. 3). Unforgivingly, the Chancellor has kept track of anti-German blasts in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and the tasteless comments of Daily Mirror Correspondent Cassandra (William Neil Connor)-who last week compared Adenauer's attitude on Berlin negotiations to "the rigidity of Hitler at Munich...
Britain, in the spring of 1959, is in a strange mood. Some critics too hurriedly raised the old cry of appeasement, leading the Spectator to retort waspishly: "For the Germans, of all people, to accuse Mr. Macmillan of wanting to do another 'Munich' is a little indelicate." Munich is obviously not the right word. But Britain-public, press and government-is plainly at odds with its allies. It lives on greater hopes and conjures up greater fears...
Capriccio had its premiere in the war-scarred Munich of 1942 and has only rarely been seen outside since. Now in a complete recording (Angel, 3 LPs) for the first time, it proves to be one of Strauss's most fascinating works. Too static for the stage, it is studded with passages of surpassing orchestral and vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal...
Said President Eisenhower pointedly in a weekend speech at Gettysburg College: ''The course of appeasement is not only dishonorable. It is the most dangerous one we could pursue. The world paid a high price for the lesson of Munich-but it learned it well...
Professor Martin Lindauer, of the University of Munich, one of the world's outstanding authorities on the behavior of bees, will give the first of three Prather Lectures in Biology this afternoon at 5 p.m. in Allston Burr Lecture Hall. His topic will be "Forms of Communication in the Social Bees...