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Touchy Issue. Israel, Algeria, Formosa, Indo-China, Indonesia, Kashmir, Cyprus and the whole NATO area are serious tension points, said Stevenson. "Today in the great arc from North Africa through Southeast Asia, the Russian challenge is developing rapidly and with great flexibility and force. Everywhere, people seeking a short cut to raise their own standards of life are told that the Soviet Union alone has mastered the secret of converting a peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that...
Manhattan Composer Norman Dello Joio, 43, has been fascinated with Joan of Arc ever since he was twelve. Six years ago he completed an opera, The Triumph of Joan (TIME, May 22, 1950), but withdrew it after the première and used some of its music for a symphony. Still not satisfied that he had caught the inspiration of Saint Joan in music, the composer made a long study of the legal proceedings that sent Joan to the stake in 1431, finally wrote an entirely new libretto and score. Titled The Trial at Rouen, it had its premi...
Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Norman dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, with Elaine Malbin as Joan of Arc...
...week. "The kids' requests show the effect of comic books," says Baker sadly. "They're always wanting horrible things like two trains crashing into each other at 90 miles an hour." An entire grade of Minneapolis schoolchildren wrote in asking to see Joan of Arc burned at the stake. There was only one dissenter in the class: he wanted to see a ship blow up in midocean...
...oddest religion in the East, and the one with the most catholic pantheon, is known as Cao Dai. Founded in Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring...