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...took the beating he had expected, and he was a graceful loser. In his concession speech to weeping admirers in Springfield, Ill., he said in a somewhat halting way: "Someone asked me, as I came in, how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...
...ALDEBURGH CONCERTS (June 1527) take place in the small local hall and Norman churches surrounding this tiny (pop. 3,000) fishing village on the windswept east coast of England. Chief attraction is Townsman Benjamin Britten. Primarily devoted to chamber music, the program will include a cycle of 15th and 20th century English church music, plus a concert by Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, accompanied on the piano by Composer Britten...
...habit Egyptians cannot kick is the galabiya, the loose, ankle-length cotton garment that looks like a nightshirt and acts as an air conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat. Fellah (peasant) and townsman alike have worn the flowing gown since the days of the pharaohs, and no amount of cajoling by Nasser's Ministry of Culture and National Guidance has been able to convince Egyptians that they should switch to that restricting jacket-shirt-and-pants that those strange, perspiring foreigners seem to prefer...
...West together last week in a 14th century Norman church near his home in Aldeburgh, a tiny (pop. 3,000) fishing village on the windswept east coast of England. The occasion was the 17th Aldeburgh Music Festival, where right from the start the main attraction has always been Townsman Britten. The premiere was just about to begin when a thunderstorm knocked out the electricity. When light was restored, Britten unfolded his hour-long opera, Curlew River, a moving parable patterned after an English medieval mystery play, but with strong No overtones in its echoes of Sumidagawa, its incantatory music...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...