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...Smith, Allott, Miller and others were retired, the Republicans suffered a net loss of two seats, and the new line-up of 57 to 43 will give the President an upper chamber somewhat more liberal?and potentially more hostile ?than its predecessor. It will also contain a goodly number of new faces (see following story...
Signs of a cautious return to wider literary interests than poetry praising Mao or socially conscious tractor drivers did appear last year with the republication of Western classics like Thucydides and such traditional Chinese novels as The Dream of the Red Chamber and Monkey. But contemporary Chinese fiction is still appallingly banal by Western standards. At the Hsin Hua bookstore in Peking's main shopping district, I asked a salesgirl to tell me which of the recently published Chinese novels was reckoned the best. "Take your pick over there," she answered unselfconsciously. "They're all the same...
...THIRD of the Senate-actually, 33 members out of the body's 100-are up for election this year. The retiring Senate has been under Democratic control, 55-45; Republicans must gain five seats if a re-elected Nixon is to have a friendlier, G.O.P.-organized chamber in his second term. The odds are long against that happening. Barring a political miracle, most Republican analysts set their probable gain...
Morse seems to be finding the age issue nearly insuperable. He is 72, and was stripped of any Senate seniority when he left the chamber in 1969. Hatfield, on the other hand, is 50 but looks 40. Morse could take some comfort, however, from the fact that polls of the 18-to-29-year-old group showed Morse a favorite over Hatfield...
Excepting some minor technical lapses (such as the unfortunate fact that a harpsichord tends to go flat under the same conditions which make a transverse flute go sharp), Monday's performances were marvelous, exemplifying all that one could ask for in the playing of Baroque chamber works--stylistic authenticity, expressive variety, superb execution, and above all, the appropriate breathing of life into the music. That Sanders Theater was literally jammed for the occasion is a not inconsiderable tribute both to a salutary change in musical taste and to two of the performers who have brought it about...