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When the State Department's Bob Murphy, arriving for Big Three talks in London, reported how wrought up the French and British were, President Eisenhower ordered Secretary Dulles to London forthwith. The Big Three found their roles ironically reversed. Two years ago the British and French had sounded the alarm at U.S. "sabre-rattling" during the Indo-China crisis of Dienbienphu. Then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had counseled the sweet uses of restraint and diplomacy. Now it was Eden's government that talked of military action. Now it was the British, despite their past jeering at Dulles...
...this invitingly gaudy material Composer Moore has wrought a clean, melodious score which succeeds in conveying strong period flavor without being condescendingly folksy. Its melodic high spots include Baby Doe's Willow Song, the stunning Silver Song (sung by Met Coloratura Dolores Wilson) and a moving choral, Lovely Evening. Sophisticated musically, the score nevertheless is marked by a clarity rare to the U.S. opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide...
...revolution in living wrought by research is just beginning. Within a few years these things will be available...
Ultimate Challenge. Perhaps the most striking single transformation wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
Citation: "His is work which shall be timeless, for it is the expression of human feeling wrought in marble, and granite, and wood...