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...nearly a quarter of a century, Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" has served as a model of what a backward economy can accomplish under honest, imaginative leadership. Since 1942, when the island's development program got under way, per capita income has risen from $120 to $905, il literacy has been largely eliminated, life expectancy has jumped from 46 years...
DELIUS: SONGS OF FAREWELL (Angel). "How sweet the silent backward tracings!" Walt Whitman's verses begin. Delius was blind when he wrote this tone poem for double chorus and orchestra, with its sliding harmonies complex in texture yet as delicate as sighs. Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society...
...with the viewpoint of millions of Americans who have visited Spain in recent years and have seen for themselves the flowering of these dignified and wonderful people. Poor, proud, persevering, they are forging a good society. Would that some of our other American publications did not keep looking backward in anger...
...their 19 numbers were vocal or orchestral. The dancers traded on speed, unflagging vigor and, as a handout from the Rumanian Embassy advised, smiles that "always blossom on the cheeks of our people." In a spectacular number, The Forest Mountains, the men reeled off a series of backward somersaults over the shoulders of their girl partners, falling on the stage and twitching furiously, then leaping up for the thigh-slapping routine. For a finale, a panpiper let loose with a spirited version of Yankee Doodle, which brought smiles to everybody's cheeks...
Chinese culture, isolated for centuries from Western influence, emphasizes a hierarchical, Glitist society and rejects the notion of national self-determination, he points out. Because of this difference, he says, China and America regard each other as "backward, evil and deserving destruction...