Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything." His trip last spring to the Bandung conference, where Nehru and Chou En-lai made much of him, helped convince Nasser that he had become a world figure. His pressagents, exuberantly whooping up the cult of the Cairo hero, seem to have influenced him at least as much as their readers. Two years of almost unbridled authority have also left their mark. "I know everything that goes on in this country," he told a U.S. newsman recently. "I run everything myself...
While the U.S. hesitated, anxious not to start an arms race in the Middle East, the Russians saw the chance they had been looking for. The Nasser who found Chou En-lai's coexistence charter at Bandung "quite convincing" sounded to Communists like their kind of neutralist−a soldier, a conspirator with a smoldering sense of anticolonial vengeance. By offering arms to Nasser, the Communists could strike hard at the Baghdad Pact. They could also win a foothold at last in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...final work, Rameau's third Concert en trio, Brown fittingly used a wooden cross flute actually owned by Johann Quantz, the greatest Baroque flute virtuoso, and lent by the Boston Fine Arts Museum from its Mason Collection of Instruments. Its tone is uniquely mellow and velvety, and well points up the fact that in the arts there is no progress, but only change. No gain is made without an equal loss...
...concert will include works by Handel, Rameau, Isaac, Ortiz, and Byrd. Some of the selections to be played are Praeludium, Si dormiero, Troisieme concert en trio, and Recercada sobre...
Promises & Problems. Red China first officially launched its offensive against the minds and morale of Chinese students in the U.S. during the summer of 1954. At the first Geneva Conference Chou En-lai accused the U.S. of "persecuting" and "detaining" Chinese students, especially 124 technicians held by the U.S. during the Korean war so that their skills would not be available to the enemy. When the U.S. lifted the ban, only half of the 124 chose to go home, but Red China decided to go after the entire Chinese student body in the U.S. Last March Peking began to register...