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True, France has some practical interests in Quebec. At a time when De Gaulle is lavishing abuse on Britain, the U.S. and other "colonialist" powers, he himself has been diligently trying to set up-something akin to a colony in Quebec. In the past seven years, French investment in Quebec has doubled to more than $100 million, and De Gaulle's government organizes regular exchange programs for students, teachers and technicians. But economic interests were far overshadowed by De Gaulle's desire to extol a vague kind of French international glory...
...supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses to the cities, Spong, whose political thinking is akin to that of progressive Republicans like Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke and Illinois' Percy, is emerging as a Democratic leader to reckon with in the new Virginia...
Shure is known for his performance of music by German composers, particularly that of Beethoven. It was this composer's Opus 109 that was the most successful portion of Monday night's highly stimulating concert. It is a work much akin to the "Diabelli" Variations, featuring as its last movement a masterful and exquisite set of variations. But Shure's Opus 109 was much more digested than his Dudley "Diabelli." In this work he exhibited the acute but sensitively analytical mind for which he is noted among musicians. Every detail of the composition's intricate structure had been thought...
...impressive clarity and lyricism, in Tristes Tropiques, a book described by its author as his "intellectual vacation." Laymen have turned to it as a painless introduction to his thought. All his other works demand rigorous intellectual effort as well as a basic understanding of anthropology. They also require something akin to an act of faith...
...haiku, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler has found that there are grave drawbacks to being the best of a rare breed. His tongue-twisting technique and feathery phrasing have dazzled concert audiences for more than a quarter-century; but purists still dismiss his performances of classical music as gimmickry, akin to playing horn concertos on a length of garden hose. Now and then, such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Darius Milhaud have written pieces for him, but the repertory for harmonica remains woefully thin; most of Adler's concert selections must be adapted from music for other instruments...