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Handel: Royal Fireworks Music (The Telemann Society Band, conducted by Richard Schulze; Vox). Handel's famous pomp-and-circumstantial salute to the 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle is here given the closest thing to an authentic performance that most listeners will ever hear-or perhaps want to. By using antique, 18th century winds and brasses, Conductor Schulze gets a gaudy, gamy sound characterized by clashing pitches that will curdle most modern ears...
...Kennedy standards of hospitality, the program planned for Jawaharlal Nehru's official U.S. visit this week is as austere as vegetable curry. Wryly mindful of the pomp and circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
Still, Bourguiba displayed enormous forbearance. In January 1960, when De Gaulle was fighting to survive the Algerian Revolt of the Barricades, Bourguiba graciously called off a scheduled "Bizerte Protest Week." As a reward, Bourguiba was invited to Paris last February, welcomed with pomp, and permitted to confer with De Gaulle. He came away glowing, convinced that the general was finally ready to negotiate withdrawal from Bizerte. Hearing nothing further, he suspected the worst; and the airstrip work confirmed his suspicions. Three weeks ago, Bourguiba sent his chief aide to Paris bearing a personal letter for De Gaulle...
With pride, pomp and publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2) √ 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4) 5. Advise and Consent, Drury (9) √6. Midcentury, Dos Passos (5) √7. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (6) 8. China Court, Godden (8) 9. Hawaii, Michener (7) √10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) √2. The New English Bible (3) √3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (2) 4. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (4) 5. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (5) √6. Skyline, Fowler...