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...concert opened with an extremely hushed and clean reading of Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal. The opera is, of course, neither Christian nor religious, but deserves hearing any time. Why then drag it out in Holy Week for "appropriateness"? This bow to the season even caused one Boston critic to express profound shock that the audience broke the "sacred" tone of the concert with applause. Myself, I applauded lustily...
...military men would as soon use the bow and arrow as fight a war in landlocked Laos. The crooked fingerlike country boasts two roads on dry days, which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice for railroads. The patchwork of mountains and jungles makes tanks about as useful there as they would be atop Mount Everest; it is guerrilla country, and the shrewd Communist Pathet Lao fighters play it that...
...take freedom away from us." he said. "Man in defense will go into the catacombs, enter a conspiratorial defense against the outside world." Then, ticking off some 20 Communist groups aimed at separating Poland's youth from their faith, he cried: "I tell you. you Caesars, you will bow to your God, and you will serve only Him." With new national elections coming next month. Gomulka was obviously anxious to avoid too open a rift with the church. As a gesture of conciliation, Poland's alarmed party bosses disbanded a Communist-sponsored club of 300 priests friendly...
...Bow Toward Borgward Sir: We have to draw your attention to the fact that your statement about sales of Borgward autos is not correct. Our sales during the calendar year totaled 4,619 units instead of 2,000, as mentioned in your article...
Would he have to bow out of important negotiations because shrimp is served? Could he light the Christmas tree in the White House...