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Hollywood's aging (54), Austrian-born enfant terrible in the past has bulldozed sparkling performances even out of Frank Sinatra and Gene Tierney, turned out a succession of hits, from wittily naughty The Moon Is Blue to Exodus. For three weeks now he has been turning all Washington into a stage and making all its politicians merely players-and only walk-ons at that...
...Once the enfant terrible of European socialism, the Labor Party calmed down after World War II, ran the country complacently as a heavily subsidized, part-free, part-controlled boom economy. During the election campaign, with all major parties agreeing on foreign policy, there were no issues except a dutiful conservative complaint about inflation. No one bothered to make a serious fight against the anti-NATO, ban-the-bomb mavericks, which may explain how they managed to grab their two seats. If the elections accomplished nothing else, they brought excitement to the country's long becalmed politics...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...
Ravel's opera was a critical success but a popular failure at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1926 (the love duet of the cats, with its mewing violins, enraged the audience). Nevertheless, L'Enfant contains some of Ravel's most appealing music, as a fine new Deutsche Gramophon recording conducted by Lorin Maazel-the first of the opera in stereo-again demonstrates...
...company with his brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell, wrote a book called McCarthy and His Enemies, an apologia for the late Senator from Wisconsin that was soundly denounced by many who had never taken the trouble to read it. This established Bill Buckley as conservatism's enfant terrible as well as the scourge of liberalism. National Review, a magazine that would provide him with a regular opportunity to play both roles, was the result. He established National Review as the only U.S. magazine that would "stand athwart history yelling 'Stop...