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...alert to troubles within his orchestra. Men who have gone too far in an effort to make music a democracy (as Charles Munch did in Boston and Dimitri Mitropoulos did before he was shooed away from New York in 1958) may find themselves watching helplessly as their musicians betray them in a thousand ways. The New York Philharmonic has made a refined art of ignoring any inept visitors among the conductors who substitute for Leonard Bernstein each year: the players keep all eyes studiously away from the podium in hopes of informing the audience that it is hearing their performance...
About the kindest thing to be said about the assorted hoots and catcalls that have appeared in your pages recently, concerned chiefly with disparaging the Administration's fiscal program is that they betray gross economic illiteracy. Unless rational economic understanding very quickly replaces the superstitions (largely politically inspired) about public spending and budgets which now seem prevalent, even Kennedy's moderate proposals seem doomed...
...betray you, kill...
...Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade...
...intensity of their intellectual commitment, The Current (of Catholicism and Contemporary Culture) would rank among the highest. In few journals will one find more self-criticism, personal involvement, and sense of intellectual crisis. In the present issue almost every contributor peeps out from behind his sturdy prose to betray concern as well as expertise...