Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position is that Communist subversion and the Soviet Union's iron domination of Eastern Europe constitute the major dangers to peace; the President of the U.S. will therefore seek peace by attempting to eliminate, or to minimize these dangers. With support from Britain and France, the U.S. will work toward...
Unstuck. Far Eastern atmospherics were punishing to Western instruments-and instrumentalists. The glued parts of viols and woodwinds regularly came unstuck; humidity snapped the strings of three violas during Beethoven's "Eroica" in Ceylon. The heat could untune a piano half a tone in two hours and rot a dress suit in a matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts...
...going back," said Pianist Hendl last week. "Probably before the end of this year I'm going back by myself. Whatever I am capable of contributing to Eastern culture in the way of Western music, I want to contribute. The tour we just concluded clearly affirms something I've always believed: that the greatest of music, which transmits the greatest of human messages, is understood everywhere...
Once each year since 1950, the eastern corner of the French Pyrenees has bloomed with music. The two-week-long festival in the little (pop. 4.400) town of Prades is too rare and delicate a blossoming to be enjoyed through the sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish...
...other embattled Britons, the winter of 1940 may have been their finest hour-but not for Commando Officers and Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh writes about in his second novel about World War II. With his elite brigades buried in Eastern Mediterranean retreat, the boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...