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...Good Angel. As Evita has moved in, she has surrounded the President more & more with her own men, most of them servile mediocrities ready to leap at her bidding. She gives daily orders to ministers, governors and Congressmen, patches up party squabbles, runs her own Peronista women's party (a potential 4,000,000 new votes), bosses the C.G.T., receives workers' delegations, inaugurates public institutions, and-three times a week at the Labor Ministry-dishes out sympathy, advice and loo-peso notes to the poor...
Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...
Jose Iturbi, at 55, is a pianist who is regarded by a vast public as a saint of the keyboard, by critics as a fallen angel. Twenty-two years ago, when Valencia-born Jose made his U.S. debut, there were hardly enough superlatives to fit his playing. But last March, after his first Carnegie Hall recital in six years, the same judges shook their saddened heads, damned him as a perfunctory performer. They conceded that Iturbi still had his nimble technique, delicate shadings and tone colors. But, as the Herald Tribune's Jerome D. Bohm put it, that made...
...fallen-angel school of critics just disagreed. They thought Jose had never stopped...
...Angel on Furlough. His latest work, Dominations and Powers, a sheaf of reflections on liberty, society, government and man's fate in general, is written with the luminous grace of an angel on furlough and the clinical detachment of a onetime Harvard professor...