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Views. An avid advocate of German unity, but not at any price. Once considered "as Red as a non-Red can get," Brandt has long since tempered his socialism, pays tribute to free enterprise's role in rebuilding West Berlin. Having praised both NATO and German rearmament, he is out of favor with the doctrinaire and neutralist leaders of his party, but since he has the youth and vigor they lack, his admirers think Brandt may yet become Chancellor of Germany...
Though not avid writers of letters-to-the-editor, Danes flooded the paper with replies. Excerpts...
Most of the early titans bought art as they bought stocks; they were interested only in authenticated masterpieces, the blue-chip established values of culture. Their successors were less lavish of necessity, but no less avid, and often supported American art, as their predecessors did not. Among Author Saarinen's gallery...
...Golden Six is Off-Broadway Maxwell Anderson and it is badly off the beam. The contemporary theater's most avid creator of historical drama, Playwright Anderson this time has swooped down on Rome during the last years of Augustus, when the Emperor and his powerful wife Livia (Viveca Lindfors) look forward to a continuing family empire, while most of the family prospects are shown scheming backward to a republic. Proffering history in great swigs and histrionics in huge gobbets, the play staggers and plunges on through a brace of reigns, amid dedicated and degenerate heirs, with Livia...
These popular two ballads by themselves made Service rich. In successive books-Ballads of a Cheechako, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Lyrics of a Low Brow -he paid repeated respects to his own talents as a versifier and an avid public's eagerness to read manly far northern rhymes such as these...