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...also chafed at his inability to get anywhere in his repeated requests for more modern arms. In Syria's feuding with Iraq, moreover, he saw his hopes for a united Arab "eastern command" dashed. Two weeks ago, when Israeli Mirage jets raided Arab commando camps in Syria and, ac cording to Tel Aviv, shot down two ob solescent MIG-17s, Assad suffered fur ther humiliation. Civilian leaders criticized his forces' antiaircraft skills...
Beheaded Virgin. Geel's enlightened approach to mental care is the product of a 1,300-year-old religious legend. Ac cording to the story, an Irish Christian princess named Dympna fled from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel...
They are usually high baritones who take time off in their late 20s or 30s to ac quire a tenor's range and build up their voice. But careers move so fast now adays that few singers can afford to interrupt them. The result, says Melchior, is that "the breed has practically vanished." Most of the tenors who attempt these heroic roles are a bit jugendlich (youthful-sounding). Meantime, great dramatic sopranos like Birgit Nilsson are Isoldes in search of Tristans, and some of Wagner's finest music is scant ed in the repertory...
...answer is partly that blues are big these days, partly that Johnny Winter is the swingingest, funkiest new white blues singer to come out of the South in years. His electric guitar crackles with a kind of voltage that can only come from the gut, not an AC outlet. His singing ranges from a harsh, staccato yell to a high soprano wail. Many of his songs are his own-improvised on the spot, or written down the night before. Like Leland, Mississippi Blues, which he sang to a crowd of shouting enthusiasts recently at Manhattan's Fillmore East...
Maynard Shapiro, made it clear that no G.P. will get the exalted rank with out earning it. There will be no grand father clause for automatic certification of present members. Each G.P. will have to put in at least 300 hours of ac credited postgraduate study to earn...