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Schumann: March No. 2, Op. 76; Waldszenen, Op. 82; Six Pieces from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Decca). Famed Russian Pianist Richter, 42, plays with an elegant cut-crystal touch that rarely blurs even in the breakneck passages. At full volume and speed, the piano geysers a language as distinctive as it is richly hued...
...make it crystal clear," said House Republican Leader Joe Martin after a solemn conference with President Eisenhower, "there is no weakening in our position." Swami Martin was talking about the Administration's struggle for a strong civil rights bill, but his crystal ball was cloudy: the Republican position was, in fact, weakening second by second...
...Platero? He "is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs." He is the constant companion of Poet Jiménez as he walks along the streets of his Andalusian town of Moguer and revels in the beauties of the dramatic Spanish landscape that surrounds it. Sickly and reserved, Jiménez talks to Platero, pours out his poetic cries of delight and despair as he witnesses the beauties...
...Genoa streetcar conductor, she joined La Scala three years ago, displayed a talent for the soubrette roles of Rossini and Donizetti and has moved some critics to predict that she will surpass Callas both as actress and singer. Her diction is flawless, her voice cool and clear as crystal. Her artistic ideal is Callas, but she has a reservation: "I still have a heart, Callas...
Deutscher passionately believes that Russian workers and intellectuals "are throbbing and stirring," that Russia is "relearning freedom." Often scholarly and hardheaded, Crystal-Gazer Deutscher (a Communist until he was thrown out of the party in 1932 for anti-Stalinism) is also a sentimentalist who believes that Stalinism is wrong but not Marxism. With the snobbery typical of many ex-Communists, Deutscher looks down on other ex-Communists and muses about vintage years-1921 was a good year, and Communism was still fine and heady stuff; 1932 was a bad year, because the party had begun to turn sour...