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Lawrence Durrell, whose recent quartet of novels about Alexandria are as popular in upper Bohemia as clam dip, made the discovery in 1936 when at 24, he wrote The Black Book. This first novel is a glittering, exultant, outrageous act of self-indulgence, and the reader needs no dust-jacket exegesis to tell him that this is the work of a brilliant boy. Durrell raises up laments to the bleakness of life, bathes in scorn and sorrow the wretched creatures who must live it, sets down prose odes to the godawfulness of England. The outlook is determinedly fungoid...
...television stations and 128 of Cuba's 149 radio stations. The policy line is clearly proSoviet, U.S. SABOTAGED THE SUMMIT! headlined the official daily Revolution. KHRUSHCHEV STILL YEARNS FOR PEACE, says La Calle. Yet, though not free to criticize home-grown Communists, the influential weekly Bohemia frequently plays up historical, deadpan articles on the Nazi-Soviet pact and the Khrushchev butchery in Hungary...
...Castro-admiring magazine Bohemia ran a section titled "What the Soviet Exposition Does not Show," included in it: "The powerful military apparatus to oppress the people, the extremely low level of the popular classes, the crimes of Hungary," The old Auténtico Party, once Cuba's strongest, sensed an issue; in its first public declaration of the Castro era, the party raised what it called "the anti-Communist banner...
Behind the Curtain. By all reports, he was at least as distinguished a conductor as he was a composer. Born into a non-musical Jewish family (his father owned a distillery) in the town of Kalischt in Bohemia, Gustav Mahler left home to study at the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 15. At 37, after years of composing and a succession of provincial conducting posts in Austria and Germany he became head of the Vienna Opera, and from that time on (1897), he was one of the most powerful men of music in Europe. He renovated the opera company...
Beginning of an Era. Even for the vast and vocal audience that recognized the Bancroft talent two years ago in Gibson's Two for the Seesaw, this season's Bancroft is a stunning spectacle. As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster. There was a feeling that perhaps the black-stockinged beatnik was only playing herself. What would happen if she really...