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...curtain rose on a heath full of shaggy, diabolical hags hurling harsh-mouthed imprecations into the night. Their wild language was a witches' brew of medieval Bavarian dialect, laced with great lumps of Latin and Greek; in the background, no fewer than 20 different percussion instruments fired the cauldron with a tingling, thwunking cacophony. Anyone wandering into Stuttgart's Opera House last week would have quickly recognized, in both words and music, the style of Germany's most highly regarded living composer, Carl (Carmina Burana) Orff, 65. Less obviously, the dark, demonic and shatteringly effective scene...
...There is a respected place in politics for the honest conservative but the languid liberal is of little use. We need progressives who will stand up and fight for a program suited to the needs of a new age. We cannot find them among these who cower before the brew beating of domestic reactionaries. The time of decision is upon us. Either we stand up together, united, or we may lose the opportunity for a political, moral, and spiritual rebirth of American democracy. If this battle is lost at home, It may be lost throughout the world. Either the people...
...Kennedy sounds good on television, and wants a fifth debate. Nixon has found his opponents over-whelmingly weak spot in the issue of Cuba, and will accept another debate if he can be sure Cuba will be the topic. Stir into this frenetic brew of telegrams Kennedy's assertion that the vice-President is "afraid" to debate with him and Nixon's statement that such an assertion is "sophomoric" and the lurch toward a fifth debate grows overpowering in its momentum...
...Mysterious Brew. Despite all his efforts, Barker found that serious ailments were often still taken first to a diviner, on the theory that no white doctor could solve the "illnesses of the people." Barker has considerable respect for the sincerity of the witch doctors, who regard their vocation as divinely inspired-but very little for their knowledge. One of them tried to cure Barker's hay fever with a mysterious, gagging brew that "tasted like a Scottish peat bog." It didn't work, Barker adds...
...scandal got started when the brewers carelessly began washing down their vats with beer instead of water, ignoring leaky valves that spilled out brew until it ran in the gutters. The brewery workers ran up "internal losses" amounting to 2,500,000 gallons of beer worth 40 million rubles-owing in part to on-the-job consumption. In order to make up their quota, they began putting water in the Zhiguli (named for a Volga River beauty spot). Even after a state inspector popped in unexpectedly and found the water content too high, brewery officials and workers kept pouring...