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Labor's façade of unity was a sham, as everyone in Britain knew. As the Scarborough conference broke up, Laborite Rebel Nye Bevan-who hopes to be Britain's next Prime Minister but one-bested all comers in the constituency polls for a new National Executive Committee of the Labor Party. Three of his disciples, including fiery Mrs. Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party...
...growing anxiety as several ambulances drove through the gates carrying surgical equipment with which to turn the Palace's rococo Buhl Room into an operating theater. They had stood and watched Queen Mary and her eldest granddaughter Elizabeth drive into the courtyard and disappear behind the great grey façade, their faces unsmiling...
...early 17th Century, the Americas sparkled with 70,000 churches. As the baroque influence increased, façades and portals were encrusted with a rich mixture of Christian and pagan symbols: angels topped by feathered headdresses; decorative borders of puma heads, papayas, pineapples and bananas; mermaids playing native guitars side by side with powerful primitive versions of the saints...
...Harmonies. Where other composers were satisfied with the conventional scale of seven basic tones (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), Schoenberg insisted on discarding "key" and exploring the potential scale of twelve tones (i.e., the full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must...
Since it was brought to the U.S. at the turn of the century, the vast canvas has been mostly rolled up in storage. In 1944 it was bought by Forest Lawn, which has constructed for it a special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...