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Last summer Schmidt presented one of the big Brahms works, which constitute the New Testament of choral music. This year he turned to the Old Testament--Handel--and gave us a sizable hunk of the charming serenata Acis and Galatea. The chorus wove lovely, if at times a bit breathy, garlands of sound, ably assisted by soloists Sara-Jane Smith and Antonio Giarraputo...
...days, Neutralist Premier U Ba Swe's government, fearful of incurring the wrath of the giant on its northeastern border, denied the Nation's report, though the news had obviously been leaked by worried Burmese army officers. Finally, bit by bit. the government began to admit facts which it had been suppressing for more than a year. The Chinese "invasion," said the government, was limited to the Wa States, where Red troops began to cross the border in the 1954-55 winter. By May of last year, Chinese Communist forces had established semipermanent outposts inside the Wa States...
Christianity as practiced in the U.S. is a bit overwhelming to a clergyman from Britain. This is the impression conveyed last week by two English ministers, in a group of ten exchange visitors traveling in the U.S. under the auspices of the National Council of Churches and the British Council of Churches. "I am wondering whether the church in America is not frightened by this boom in religion." said Canon Hartley A. Wareham. Vicar of Linthorpe. Middlesbrough. Yorkshire. "The fantastic interest in church building, church attendance and education is a strange, alarming phenomenon about which we must not be cynical...
...compromise lodged him in prison, cost him his fortune in millions and, finally, made him a sort of walking effigy of liberty. To realists like Mirabeau, who tried to take over the revolution, Lafayette's "only ambition is to be praised," and to Napoleon, Lafayette was "a bit of a simpleton...
Conflicting viewpoints and a general attitude which fell a bit short of the oftmentioned "qualified optimism" provided the main attraction at the past three days' Conference on "The Little Magazine in America...