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...dancing a stately minuet, Macmillan seemed to advance toward Europe one minute, then twirl and step backward the next. Was he being too cautious? "Forever Amber," sniffed the Liberal Party's peppery Lady Violet Bonham Carter, echoing the growing criticism of Mac's leadership in general. The British public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak...
...Moffo Arias (Rome Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Tullio Serafin; RCA Victor). One of the youngest (25) and most gifted of the new generation of home-grown U.S. divas visits some familiar operatic landmarks, examining them with taste, agility and dramatic flair. The voice-silvery in the upper registers, amber in the lower-has rarely sounded surer...
Denmark's artistic genius has primarily been a household affair. Some 8,000 years before Christ, Danes were polishing and shaping bits of bone and amber into small beasts and birds to be used as both ornaments and currency. Six thousand years later, the farmers of Jutland and Zealand were fashioning bowls and beakers as sophisticated as any found anywhere in Europe. In time, bronze, silver and gold objects appeared: the viking bracelets and necklaces on display at the Met could have been the work of the finest goldsmiths...
Coronary artery disease, medical scientists have long suspected, is closely related to diet. So is diabetes. These suspicions have now been strengthened by close observation of one of the Orient's most ancient communities, preserved like a fly in amber for some 2,500 years. The observed are Jews who migrated from Yemen to Israel; the observers are European-trained immigrants to Israel...
...economically. Australians whose families had left Britain generations before still referred to England as "home," still looked to London for their literary, social and international opinions, and if they sometimes rejected this guidance were still marked by it. Remote and provincial, a kind of British fly in Antipodean amber, Australia was a complacent mixture of Victorian respectability at the upper levels and a rough-and-ready bush socialism below...