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...entire program--conducting, music, and performance. Mlle. Boulanger stood on her home ground: early and modern vocal and instrumental music. The selection of music avoided the Romantic period, and the blank from the death of Bach to the birth of Poulenc--1750 to 1899--accented the intellectualized, the carefully wrought, the finely spun. Inevitably, Mlle. Bouanger conceived and reaized the program in the image of her own precise character...
...What wrought the change in Szilard's case was a four-week series of treatments with 2,000,000-volt X rays at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. His convalescence was supervised, as is his current care while he lives at a Washington hotel, by his personal physician, Dr. Gertrud Weiss-who is also his wife. With the same realism that he showed when his prospects were poorest, Dr. Szilard now says: "I have not been in a hospital since I left Memorial. But I don't want to mislead people into thinking I am cured, because...
...Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a class. It unfolds through personalities instead of tiresome figures transplanted from an Everyman play. And even more gratifying, this gracefully wrought story reveals a person whose uniqueness is respected; it is not a discombobulated tirade against a way-ward society...
...revolutionary changes that have been wrought in our world demand a new kind of man. The Christian man must learn to perceive the sanctity of the natural world, and thus redeem the aims of science; the Renaissance man must be broadened to breach the limitations of his individualism; the bourgeois man must be liberated from his false security of things and status...
...even as it has burgeoned, the far right has wrought its strong counter-reactions. Its "superpatriotism" has recently come in for strong criticism from President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower, from Vice President Johnson and former Vice President Nixon, and from leaders of Roman Catholic, Protes tant and Jewish churches. American Motors Chairman George Romney, a conservative who is considering running next year as Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, recently shook up a meeting of the All-American Society in Salt Lake City by telling the audience: "Infiltration of Communism is not the greatest problem facing our country...