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Stravinsky himself, as well as the other non avant-garde master, Bela Bartok, was able to come to intellectual terms with the esthetic crisis of post-romantic music. Each one of Stravinsky's works, especially Le Sacre du Printemps, Les Noces, Symphony of Psalms, Agon, and the new Requiem Canticles, represents a new solution in considerably more traditional terms to the problems of contemporary musical speech. If the avant -garde chooses to ignore his principle, if it is possible to ignore it, then renewal will have become chaotic...
...EDGAR G. ULMER'S "Classic chiller," Boris Karloff plays opposite Bela Lugosi. You therefore expect, and get, a wide range of bizarre deeds--for starters, Satanism and skinning alive. The more extreme of these deeds are supported by a host of lesser strange touches, partly in Ulmer's visual style and partly in the fine acting. These touches make the film the masterpiece it is. They constantly reveal the personalities of the characters--especially the two leads, whose traits and drives take in all mutations of moral position and psychological experience. Karloff initially seems perverse and decadent; Lugosi, virtuous...
...conflict between Peru and the U.S. revolves around a Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiary, the International Petroleum Co., which has been pumping oil out of Peruvian soil since 1924. Last October, only six days after they had overthrown President Fernando Belaúnde, Peru's new military masters seized IPC's property. Under the 1962 Hickenlooper Amendment, the U.S. is obliged to halt foreign aid and preferential-trade deals with any country that expropriates American property without making adequate compensation. Under Hickenlooper, the cutoff must take place six months after the seizure unless "meaningful" negotiations...
...amendment. It has managed to extend the deadline for ending aid by five days. General Velasco could release the U.S. from its duty by agreeing to a negotiated settlement, but he can hardly back down under U.S. pressure without destroying his own reputation. It was largely because President Belaúnde had failed to crack down on IPC, and thus defy the U.S., that Velasco was able to whip up popular support for his military takeover. The support continues, as far as Velasco's expropriation of IPC is concerned. But many Peruvians are finally realizing that...
Peruvians continued to be rankled because the Yanqui company owned the fields instead of merely operating them under a government concession. In his 1963 presidential campaign, Belaúnde promised to expropriate the fields but backed down after his victory. A year ago, his government began claiming that IPC owed $144 million in back taxes, the total amount of profits that the company earned in Peru during the previous 15 years. Then the two sides struck the August compromise: Peru would take ownership of the fields, but IPC would help operate them under contract. Simultaneously, the government scrubbed...