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...slavery to the printed note" first occurred to Composer Foss while listening to the high-brow jazz of the Modern Jazz Quartet three years ago. Foss invited a group of classical players-all former composition students of his at U.C.L.A.-to get together and improvise freely in a classical counterpart to the jazz manner. They soon had to give up that approach: "We just daydreamed; we didn't make music." What he was looking for, Foss realized, was a group improvisation in which every player would in some way be responsible to the others...
...this is that the Labour Party's Constitution is far too democratic to permit any such assertion of authority. "The Parliamentary Party," it states emphatically, "could not long remain at logger-heads with the annual party conference without disrupting the party," the implication being that unlike its Conservative counterpart, the Labour front bench may not dictate to the conference. Thus, to save his party from its first serious split, Gaitskell must convince next year's conference to accept a series of constitutional reforms...
...Germans had been expecting the blast. A few days before the meeting, the government introduced a new $500 million, five-year aid plan, largely drawn from counterpart funds set up as part of the Marshall Plan aid. Said Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "The German people should not forget that after their country's collapse they received help through the sacrifices of other nations. We shall be prepared to recognize our obligations and make a deliberate sacrifice to help other peoples." Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano added that "development policy must be given equal status with our Eastern policy...
Standard bearer of freedom in the old Italian colony (pop. 1,500,000) is Abdullahi Issa, 38. His counterpart in the old British colony (pop. 640,000) is a British-educated rich man's son, Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 32. When Issa brought up independence last year, Italy told him he could have it whenever he liked. Egal promptly asked for permission to join his colony to the new nation. Britain readily agreed. The two men quickly worked out a merger agreement, and last week the two legislatures simply combined. As the Somali Republic's Provisional President, Issa...
Coming after Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, The Tempest caps a magnificent interrelated tetralogy, the dramatist's counterpart to the late Beethoven quartets Op. 130-133. All four plays explore the estrangement-remorse-reconciliation theme. But The Tempest is extraordinarily rich in meanings--in Mark Van Doren's felicitous words, "Any set of symbols, moved close to this play, lights up as in an electric field." Whatever else it may be, the play is a masterful study of the use and abuse of liberty (how often the very words "liberty," "free" and "freedom" crop up in the text...