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Lenin was moved almost to tears by Beethoven, and he loved flowers; once, gazing at a clump of broken lilac branches, he murmured: "It pains me, you know." But Lenin could also sign a sheaf of blank execution orders, leaving Trotsky to fill in the names. Last week Izvestia splashed a story across its pages designed to show that Lenin could feel as kindly toward people as toward flowers...
Jack's hero in Three Cheers for Me is Bartholomew Bandy, whose long and inscrutably deadpan face exasperates everyone who lays eyes upon it. Bandy's blank exterior hides nothing but innocence. Son of a Canadian cleric, he is unsullied by liquor or women. But then Bandy goes off to fight in World War I and lurches into manhood like a drunk stumbling down a flight of stairs-always headed in the right direction but never quite in control of himself or the situation...
...utmost efficiency consistent with impeccable elegance characterized the entire program--conducting, music, and performance. Mlle. Boulanger stood on her home ground: early and modern vocal and instrumental music. The selection of music avoided the Romantic period, and the blank from the death of Bach to the birth of Poulenc--1750 to 1899--accented the intellectualized, the carefully wrought, the finely spun. Inevitably, Mlle. Bouanger conceived and reaized the program in the image of her own precise character...
...nearly $250,000 over 1960. But as usual, the major share of the total profit ($2,212,709) reported by the New York Times Co. came from a Canadian paper mill in which the Times holds a 42% interest. It still seems to pay better to turn out blank paper than to have the wit to say something...
Asked point-blank at his press conference whether the U.S. merely supports the Nationalists or would help them recapture the Communist mainland. President Kennedy was at first reduced to an ungrammatical stutter: "Well, I'm not-I think that I'm not aware of the statement that's been made. We have not been consulted about-as I stated-in the way that the agreements would call for and that, therefore, I would think that there'd be no use in explorations of potential situations...