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MOZART THE DRAMATIST, by Brigid Brophy. A brilliant interpretation of Mozart's operas, written so gracefully as to disarm criticism of its heavily Freudian outlook...
Clash & Cameras. The fact that the U.S. and Europe are at odds seriously threatens their greatest current attempt to create still more economic interdependence: the so-called Kennedy Round tariff talks that aim to cut almost all duties in half. The Europeans at Vienna tried to disarm the U.S. delegates of their fears that General De Gaulle may scuttle those negotiations, but the chief U.S. tariff negotiator, Christian Herter, was uncharacteristically pessimistic. It became clear at Vienna that unless the U.S. and Europe can resolve their immediate conflicts, the march toward Western economic unity may be set back...
...When we were in Russia," Satish Kumar said, "they tell us, 'if we disarm, America will destroy us,' but here I do not see any horrible people. All say, 'We will disarm if they disarm.' What is this 'if'? This is not the logic of love. This is the logic of mistrust...
...sure I want to be a lawyer." When he was enthusiastic about something he let people know in no uncertain terms: "Boy, this is really great." And when he talked about his high school sweetheart he would do so with a simple conviction that never failed to disarm his listener: "You know, Mary is the most wonderful girl in the world...
...occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains one of the truly freewheeling minds of the times, a genuine enfant terrible of letters who frequently is the first to point...