Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ELIOT: THE FAMILY REUNION (3 LPs; Caedmon). Static and awkward to stage with its philosophic asides and Greek choruses, this poetic play is ideal for recording. One of Eliot's last undertakings was to help choose the excellent cast, which perfectly weaves the shadowy modern drama of sin and expiation. Dame Sybil Thorndike is Amy, the steely dowager who has spent 35 years "designing" her son's life. Paul Scofield plays Harry, the restless, half-mad son who bursts asunder the conventional family gathering, and Flora Robson is Agatha, the all-knowing aunt ("When the loop in time...
...morning after his death, Premier Kosygin and President Ayub Khan shouldered Shastri's coffin and bore it to a blue-and-silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
...Fury) for his ferocious attacks on the Fourth Republic; he earned still more bitter criticism by advocating a hard line on Algeria, and resigned after the ceasefire. Since then, however, he has staged a comeback, in both influence and popularity. As a Deputy representing remote Reunion Island since 1963, he has ably commanded the Gaullists in the National Assembly, and campaigned last fall with promises of higher expenditures for education and welfare-which he is now ideally situated to implement...
Ordinarily, Louis Seltzer would have been smiling. It was the end of an exhausting, satisfying week In which the Cleveland Press had run a series of touching stories about a Hong Kong reunion it had arranged between soldiers serving in Viet Nam and their Cleveland families. Yet Seltzer had tears in his eyes much of last Friday as he cleared out the last memorabilia from his office and bade his staff farewell. After half a century with the Scripps-Howard Press, and 38 years as its editor, "Mr. Cleveland" was reluctantly retiring...
...Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev bounded through Bluebird and Giselle. "They dance so beautifully," sighed Rudi. But he carefully avoided dancing backstage for a reunion...