Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their chairs, laboring in total concentration to draw from their instruments the warm, expressive voices that exemplify the string quartet. They moved quickly through the music, sel dom speaking, marking cues in their scores, skipping past the easy to bear down on the difficult. Then, with only a brief break to relax from the tension of the severe rehearsal, the Juilliard String Quartet strode to center stage at the Tanglewood Theater-Concert Hall last week, greeted a rapt audience with deep bows, and presented a program of contemporary chamber music played with a unity of excellence that is matchless...
...head on a stick. The orgy at the fireside ("Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!") has swept the boys into frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until it is carried...
...effect Reischauer's government service will have upon his scholarly career will be to make him a specialist in modern Japanese history, although he began as an ancient historian. Previously he had explored fairly extensive areas of Far Eastern history, but had only taken a "few brief looks at modern history. At least, I'll still be in the same country," he observed. He does intend to return to teaching after his stint in Japan ends, but has made no definite plans. As I left him however, there was little doubt in my mind that be would return to pedagogy...
...Chicago code has worked well restraining headline-happy editors. Trouble is, the editors have been going it one better. In the most recent racial flare-ups (TIME, Aug. 9), only the most persistent newspaper reader in Chicago could find the brief, terse ac counts almost invariably buried deep in his newspaper. During a week of nightly rumbles near the Negro ghetto of Chicago's South Side, 178 arrests were made, and seven policemen were injured. But after the second night of brawling, the morning Sun-Times merely tucked a few paragraphs at the bottom of its obituary page...
...becomes history. Churchill, of course, is all grandeur and the tragedy of nations; Bevan was a class warrior, and his finest hour, like Socialism's, was never to come. But as near as may be-though he has been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close friend and passionate partisan; he is today what Bevan was-Member of Parliament for the Welsh miners of Ebbw Vale and Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice...