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...evening ended with Richard Strauss, a composer of whom Madame Schwarzkopf is particularly fond. Listening to Schlechtes Wetter, one knew why. The song is about a mother who will bake a cake for her lazy daughter who sits at home. It ends in a soaring waltz straight from Der Rosenkavalier: Schwarzkopf's voice here was all whipped cream and Sachertorte. Not satisfied with this dessert, the audience demanded three encores before the soprano took the bouquets of roses from the piano as a sign that the concert was over. The reluctance to leave was understandable: it was a treasurable recital...
Facing up to the island's growing hunger, he set harsh new rationing regulations. In Havana, almost everything is to be rationed. Rice is restricted to 6 lbs. per person per month; beans, 1½ lbs.; soap, one cake ("I believe it will suffice if used economically," said Castro); eggs, five. Meat is restricted to ¾ lb. per week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with...
...remarks: "Only He can count the pairs of ears, delirious with Indian ragas or the twang of the koto, which really long for the lilt of a good Chassidic niggun!" He speaks of the "irresolute student who apparently wishes to lick the icing of identification without eating the cake of commitment," and, in his final paragraph, he addresses the neo-Hasids directly: "To all of vou neo-Hasids, including myself, I bequeath a Bris [circumcision] with the dull blade of superficiality...
...what should be an extremely close contest, the track team faces Army in Briggs Cake at 1 p.m. Except for the K of C meet Jan. 13, the Crimson has been idle since it defeated Manhattan Dec. 16. That, plus the fact that Army threatens Harvard in the events where the Crimson is strong--particularly in the weights and distance running-- makes the outcome anybody's guess. A few of the Crimson weight men will also compete in the B.A.A. meet Saturday afternoon at MIT. in a separate match, the freshmen will face Brown...
...Californians who last year formed a non-profit organization called California Tomorrow. Their report concedes that various communities are trying to plan intelligently, but says that the planners are defeating themselves because of the lack of a master plan. "Although the dough looks good," say Wood and Heller, "the cake is not rising and the reason is simple: nobody wrote out a recipe...