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...Originally called "Moritat" (literally, a murderous deed), a song style used by 17th and 18th century street-fair singers, who tearfully presented the latest atrocity in ballad form on the streets of Germany...
...Israel's December raid on Syrian frontier outposts near the Sea of Galilee, in which 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed. It was Israel's fourth such "reprisal" attack in two years, and, in the words of the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., "a deed so out of proportion with the provocation that it cannot be accurately described as a retaliatory raid...
Every sign pointed to a long, noisy and hyperpolitical session, with nearly every word and deed aimed at next Nov. 6. Most of what is said and done will be affected profoundly by the heartbeats of two men. Political maneuvering in and between both parties will be influenced by the condition of Dwight Eisenhower's health and the course of his political decisions. The practical operations will revolve around the heart and hand of Texas' Democratic Senator, Lyndon Johnson...
...Arabia Talbot found that the oryx a handsome black-and-white antelope is almost extinct because Arabs believe that to kill one is a great deed. In the old days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive...
...Hell. The opera, Lucas Foss's Griffelkin, with libretto by Alistair Reid, was offered by the NBC Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m.). Griffelkin is a little devil whose tenth-birthday gift is to be sent up to earth to raise a little hell. When he does a good deed, he is banished forever to earth, where he happily becomes, minus tail and horns, a normal small boy. What with a singing letter-box and dancing lions, Griffelkin was in the old operatic tradition. But the music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most of the time...