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...main function of the Young Democrats is to provide a free, enthusiastic force to man mimeo machines, to distribute leaflets, to babysit for voting mothers, and to secure the young lovelies in straw hats and striped blazers who decorate every campaign bandwagon. The rhetoric of their gatherings is usually cliched and the issues only token...
Jumping on the Hemingway bandwagon, Caedmon Records has just released a record of Hemingway reciting the speech he wrote upon receiving the Nobel Prize, one of the love poems, and a few trivial pieces of self-parody-all in a reedy, nervous voice. But while there are "enough of Papa's poems to fill a book one-half inch thick," according to Mary Hemingway, the rest are unlikely to be published or recorded for many years. "Some of the longest poems are about living people," she says, "and most of them are uncomplimentary, to say the least...
...victory, give him if possible a majority in both the National Assembly and Senate. That takes some doing, since the Congo, as if to prove it can be more democratic than anybody, has no fewer than 221 political parties. At Luluabourg, 49 of them jumped on Tshombe's bandwagon...
Meanwhile, the birthday bandwagon keeps rolling. In the next six months half a dozen new recordings of Tippett's works will be released-equivalent to his entire previous output on disks. This summer the Leicestershire, Bath and Edinburgh festivals will all feature special programs of Tippett's music. In July he will visit the U.S. to serve as composer-in-residence at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. At 60, the late-blooming composer is at the peak of his creative career. And, as Britten says, he has a lot more notes to write...
Nonetheless, he is running scared, because Candidate Jinnah has managed to focus every form of discontent in the country. To brake her bandwagon, he abruptly decreed that elections would be held Jan. 2, instead of March, as originally scheduled. Explaining lamely that the situation is "a little tense," the government also rescinded a law specifying that political rallies must be open to the public...