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...British embassy reception the night after Khrushchev's speech, while Mikoyan was praising his master for the stir he had created, Macmillan publicly remarked: "This is an extraordinary method of diplomacy." At luncheon next day Macmillan addressed only two stiffly formal remarks to Khrushchev. At the Bolshoi Ballet the two men sat side by side without speaking throughout an entire performance of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. And when it came time for Macmillan to set off on a four-day tour of Kiev and Leningrad, Khrushchev, who had promised to accompany him, excused himself on the transparently...
...Riddle and This Is Russia Uncensored. His wife Nina became a U.S. citizen in 1943. is a 1946 graduate of Wellesley. They have one son, Moscow-born Edmund Jr., 22, an M.I.T. graduate, and one daughter, U.S.-born Anastasia, 17, who is studying at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet School...
Other American offerings at the Brussels World's Fair may stir assorted snorts, crank complaints and real misgivings, but U.S. musical fare is a solid hit. Against such exotic competition as the Peking Opera, Congoese Dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet, the U.S. gets top marks for a first-rate music and dance program on a shoestring budget. "The Americans," wrote De Standaard, "are producing musical activity that can truly be called unique...
...press published meticulous accounts of the damage -mainly broken windows-inflicted on the Soviet embassy in Bonn by German students protesting the execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter. Next day 2,000 Russian students and workers appeared before the West German embassy on Moscow's Bolshoi Gruzinskaya Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained façade of the embassy looked like a huge Jackson Pollock canvas, and more than 40 large windows lay in splinters. A similar...
Warren appeared with the Bolshoi Theater Company in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto, a part that he has made his own at the Met. Several of the Russian singers (who sang in Russian while Warren sang in Italian) came close to matching Warren in acting ability, but when he opened up his big voice, he dominated the stage. After his Act II aria, Cortigiani "oil razza, reported the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled...