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...finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...
Kwame Nkrumah. the wonder boy of West Africa, rose to fame & fortune by denouncing British imperialism in his booming colony of the Gold Coast. Last week, as Prime Minister of what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Janos Starker & Abba Bogin; Period, 2 LPs). All five of the master's efforts for cello and piano. The cello is played with fire, tenderness and unerring accuracy by Hungarian-born Janos Starker of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His partner is a talented young (27) American pianist...
...STARKER LEOPOLD...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...