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...nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention in the Suez crisis...
Although Al-Anon's influence occasionally leads an alcoholic into A.A., this is incidental to its purpose. Many members deliberately conceal from their alcoholic mates that they belong to Al-Anon. They do so in the belief that their problem is unique and should not be confused with the alcoholic problem. "You've got to take your eye off the alcoholic's problem and put it on yourself," says one group chairman. "Don't pour his bottle down the sink. Let him drink. One day he'll come around. But in the meantime...
Offstage, Pianist Haskil is a plain woman who wears no makeup to conceal the traces of suffering that line her face, but her features are livened by wisdom and humor. She was a prodigy, made her debut in Vienna at the age of nine, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Conservatory at 14. After World War I, illness forced her into temporary retirement; later she took up playing sonatas with such greats as Ysaye, Enesco, Casals. She has appeared at the Casals festivals in France, and it was one of her younger colleagues there, Pianist Eugene Istomin...
...Dark. In the immediate sense, the big news from Budapest was that the Kremlin could no longer paper over or conceal the splits and fissures in the Communist monolith (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that, Budapest was a new vindication of the old proposition that government, however strong, cannot indefinitely have its way without the consent of the governed, however it might seem to be dulled. "The soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night," Winston Churchill once said memorably, citing this proposition, "can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where...
...work of Kandinsky, Feininger and Marc bring us to the realm of serious struggle with angles of vision. The myth-like atmosphere of Marc's painting, dominated by great blue horses, does not conceal the disintegration of simple planes...