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...past Eliot seems to have agreed with Sartre that hell is other people; now he introduces the novel idea (for him) that heaven may be other people too. For this beaming Mr. Eliot, British critics had mostly middle-drawer adjectives-"entertaining," "touching," "his most human"-while the London Observer's Kenneth Tynan crashed through with "banal." U.S. audiences may have a chance to judge for themselves before long. The play is scheduled to move to London later this month, but at week's end Producer Henry Sherek was mulling "most flattering offers" to transport The Elder Statesman direct...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Few top-drawer conductors are younger than Stravinsky's 1913 masterpiece, but Bernstein (b. 1918) is one of them. With all his life to absorb and assimilate the jagged rhythms and excruciating dissonances, he has achieved probably the most exciting performance of this work ever released on records. The blazing, barbaric recorded sound is up to the performance...
...August Family Doctor, published by the British Medical Association. When London's medicos began to move to Harley Street in the 1880s (from Savile Row), each leading practitioner usually leased an entire house and lived over his consulting rooms. Today only a handful of top-drawer consultants-as the British prefer to call their specialists-can afford a whole house. (Dr. Asher himself occupies such a house in Wimpole Street, which parallels Harley in direction and character.) Result is most Harley doctors lease a suite of rooms...
...rare gesture of across-the-Curtain appreciation, the top-drawer Soviet Union Academy of Sciences awarded membership to 30 non-Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
...year has made a world of difference. Today, with Russia's giant 1½ ton Sputnik orbiting in space alongside the more finely tooled objects that Premier Khrushchev contemptuously dismisses as the American "oranges," Soviet science is universally acknowledged to belong in the world's top drawer...