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...Counterpoint. To other members of the Cabinet, Secretary Humphrey's repeated rumbles about the need for economy sound less tuneful than they sound to Senator Byrd. Most of them apparently believe that their departmental budgets are tight. Secretary Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative...
...Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict train rolling across Siberia to the camp. As a counterpoint to the doomed men in the cattle cars, Author Bahriany describes the comforts of another train, also bound east, which is carrying volunteer settlers to the frontier lands on the Pacific. Among them is the NKVD major responsible for Hryhory's arrest. These are the antagonists: the hunter...
...Koussevitzky. Lennie, who had whizzed through Boston's notoriously tough public Latin School with a top-tenth record,, now whizzed through Harvard (class of '39). He majored in music ?counterpoint with Arthur Tillman Merritt, theory with Walter Piston?but he spread his interests straight across the academic boards, and laid down a strong foundation of culture to support his musical taste. He also found time to play the piano for silent movies at the student film club, tried out?but was rejected?for the job of second Glee Club accompanist (years later Bernstein, who never forgets, came to Harvard...
...libretto, by Prokofiev and his wife, Poetess Mira Mendelsohn, arbitrarily hacked great chunks out of the Tolstoy epic without ever linking them in true dramatic tension. Tolstoy's own brilliant literary counterpoint-in which he switched from peace to war scenes and back-was abandoned. All the peace was concentrated in the first part, all the war in the second, so that many of the figures in Part I suddenly dropped out of sight. Moreover, the libretto was narrative rather than dramatic, required whole passages of flat prose to be set to music, with the result that long stretches...
...Javits, 52, took retiring Democrat Herbert Lehman's seat with a decisive victory over New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner (TIME, Oct. 1 ). Ex-Congressman Javits (1947-54) rolled up an 885,000-vote lead over Wagner in Republican counties upstate, more than enough to counterpoint the Mayor's 441,000 Democratic edge in New York's five boroughs...