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...symphonic repertoire. Its decayed sweet tooth cannot be extracted by more sugar, and its delight in gratuitous perfumes cannot be disciplined by more profferments of dusty oleander. This never-ending recovery of "adolescence" and "national roots" on the part of Anglo-Saxon composers, their incessant celebration of the precious and popular, reaches an apotheosis of sorts when a British commentator asserts that Benjamen Britten's personality "does not show Stravinsky's uncomplicated sadomasochism, Schönberg's desexualization of music, or the naive barbarism of Bartok." There is really no answer to this kind of a chocolate-cream musicologist except...
...Botudu)? Yet Vigo puts him in places and relations to other characters and to the camera, which bring us closer and closer to him. Finally the wife goes into his cabin which is filled with souvenirs of the seven seas. Simon's pride as he shows off his precious machines is touching. A little pathetic, he becomes no weaker; Vigo treats his personal peculiarities as a source of strength...
...Precious Relic. He has treated the wounds with biweekly visits to a mental therapist, having also experimented with marijuana, astrology, numerology and spiritualism. Despite his varied researches, Raffael does not come on, as he says, "like some kind of mystical freak," possibly because he leads a relatively sedate life with his recently acquired wife and her two children by a previous marriage on a farm in Bennington, Vt. His latest oils, shown at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this winter, also show a new, monumental serenity. Raffael now likes statelier themes: an Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised...
Russia and the U.S. are both capable of throwing up a variety of diversionary objects. Metallic balloons, dummy warheads, masses of tiny metal strips called chaff, can all be employed to confuse the defenders and force them to waste precious ABMs. The presumption has been all along that the Chinese, who do not yet have an ICBM force in being, could not produce so sophisticated a first-generation missile. Still, Peking will certainly develop its missiles with a broad general knowledge of U.S. defense concepts. "Their deployment," Bethe said recently, "will probably be determined by our ABM system. How long...
...members, had protested the August occupation of Czechoslovakia; last week's meeting quickly developed into a forum in which the Russians were reproached anew in some of the most forceful language ever used against them. Longo main tained that "the authority of the Czecho slovak leaders is a precious patrimony for all their people, for all Socialist countries, for all men in the world who believe in socialism and struggle for it." Rumanian Delegate Paul Niculescu-Mizil insisted that the Russians "lacked any justification" for their actions against Czechoslovakia.* Czechoslovak Representative Evzen Erban, delivering a speech that had undergone...