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...seeing would have re quired a three-month, globe-girdling tour. And though the schedule was jampacked, permitting never more than an hour per visit, it was the perfect format for Rusk, who is at his best in private diplomatic conversation. Rusk relied on his encyclopedic knowledge of world af fairs, lots of coffee, an occasional drink of Scotch, and two packs of Chester fields a day to get him through the polyglot, problem-laden week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: The Perfect Format | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Further Steps. The atmosphere was jovial. "Let us pretend we are discussing something," said AF for the benefit of photographers. Volunteered H: "I'll make my famous speech in Russian." He grinned but said nothing, since he speaks no Russian. Suddenly finding a microphone in front of his face, WAH declared: "The treaty is a very important step forward in many respects. It provides the possibility of further steps." Everyone seemed to be talking about steps. In his report to the people, President Kennedy used the same image (see THE NATION). The big, unanswered and for the present unanswerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: A New Temperature | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Europe Plain & Simple | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Ministry Holds Seminars | 11/13/1962 | See Source »

cini began the opera in 1920 without completing it in nter of 1924. Alfano finished ork by 1926, only shortly af Berg's Wozzeck had re its Berlin premiere. Though was written well after the experiments of Schonberg neo-Classic references of Strauss' Mosartean operas, osenkaveller and Ariadne auf it shares few similarities them. Rather, its dissonance something in common with the harmonies of Stravinsky's rd, written over a decade , and even more with Rim colorful orchestral Turandot is a strange operatally original work of art that aptly be labelled "reactionior its times...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: "Turandot": Puccini's Best | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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