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Despite its otherworldly blend of open-and empty-mindedness, the jury was picked in two hours...
...paid for the rare bunting, a modified Old Glory made about 1795, with 15 six-pointed stars and 15 stripes to represent the original colonies and newly admitted Vermont and Kentucky. The faded flag had been among the English Calverts for generations. Last week, with a fine blend of loyalty and public relations, Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, bought the flag at a Sotheby's auction in London to return to the colonies as the property of an offshoot of the family tree, his Calvert Distillers...
...first method would have depended for conference on perfect timing. The characters would have had to establish, by pause and gesture alone, a basic emotional rhythm. The surface chatter would have served as ironical counterpoint. The blend would have caught the spirit of the play perfectly...
...without a backward look, so he can 'do good.' The world is full-and the Peace Corps will be-of people who want to 'do good' and have not the slightest idea how. This young man knows how. He is that curious and very rare blend of idealist-operator...
...composers and what the Russians call modern music: Hindemith, Poulenc, Mahler. As for Schoenberg and his successors, Kondrashin says flatly: "Nyet! This is not music. This is noise." He drills his young (average age: 35) musicians four to six hours a day. He admires U.S. orchestras for their happy blend of "German discipline and a French kind of freedom." But as a loyal Communist, he has decried their artistic and financial dependency on "the voluntary sacrifices of millionaires," whose only concern is their own "satisfaction and public advertisement." Otherwise, he says, Americans are "warmhearted, broadminded and businesslike-just like Russians...