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...with him. But there was a more concrete reason for the disappointment Nasser took with him last week when he pulled up anchor and sailed away three days earlier than planned. From host Ahmed ben Bella, Algeria's young Premier, Nasser had gotten hearty cordiality and words of acclaim, but no real promise to bring Algeria into Nasser's scheme for a United Arab Republic. Cordial & Cool. As the only two socialist rulers in the Arab world, they had much in common. And Ben Bella was duly grateful to Nasser for his aid in the long struggle against...
...classroom James gained acclaim primarily for the qualities of his personality, rather than for demonstrations of fastidious scholarship. His extraordinary open-mindedness and verve were contagious. Characteristically he doubted his capacity as a teacher, and even wrote apologetically to one former student that he had taught "wretchedly...
Some simple facts about The Cursed Daunsers' presentation at the Loeb are worth acclaim in themselves. The opera presents the original work of two undergraduates, the libretto of Thomas Babe and the music of Alfred Guzzetti. The production succeeds without employing more than a few minor personnel from outside Radcliffe and the College. And the drama's appearance at the Loeb is the first such Harvard production there and marks a significant return of opera to the University stage...
...sort of frenzy, the devil knows what"), and turned on the painters and sculptors with undisguised fury. Some, he roared, seek inspiration in "rubbish heaps and stinking latrines," or "present people in an intentionally ugly aspect." Such a man was Ernest Neizvestny, a sculptor who has recently won wide acclaim in Moscow's art world with his provocative works. But to Khrushchev, his work was just a "nauseating concoction. It is a good thing we do not have many such artists," he said...
Charming & Terrifying. Encouraged by the acclaim, music lovers in Cleveland behave like sports fans elsewhere. They have airport rallies when the orchestra comes home from tour. They chant, "We're the best! We're the best!" and carry placards reading "Bravo!" They have a Meet Your Orchestra radio program that features chummy interviews with tuba players and treats double-bassists like second basemen. They have been known to stop musicians on the street to plead for autographs and crowd the stage door after concerts to shake the hands of fiddlers. And in store windows all over town, they...