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...Arrowhead High School paraded into an apartment for which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
...Austria and Prussia again. The Congress of Vienna gave Poland nominal independence, but after a period of "watchful waiting" the Russians were back again with a program of wholesale executions and Russification. Napoleon had used Poland ("my second Polish war") as an excuse to attack Russia, but it was Otto von Bismarck, master of Realpolitik, who saw Poland's festering hatred of Russia as a means of keeping the great eastern power in bounds. "If one helped the Poles a little, they could rise in revolt and win their freedom," he whispered to Italy's Premier Crispi...
...Otto Luening, professor of Music at Columbia, prefaced a summary of experimental and electronic music with remarks about the unfortunate fads for "background music," which pours forth while you do something else, for "narcotic music," which is turned down low as a soporific, and for "fixed music," which results from exclusive listening to a specific recorded performance of one work, "in which even the surface noises become part of the aesthetic experience...
Composer Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, professor of Music at Columbia, and Irving Fine, professor of Music at Brandeis will discuss "The Contemporary Composer and His Public" at the Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...Poets' Theatre, under guest director Otto Asherman, has given the play a vivacious production. All acting honors go to Patricia Guest (Aurora), a lovely young lady who displays all the stupidity, vanity, and carnality the role demands. Edward Thommen, who frequently directs shows at Poets', recovers early from a shaky start, where he seems self-conscious as the Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed...