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Ellington's compositions for jazz band and orchestra usually stay within a concerto grosso form that lets the band handle the jazz, while the orchestra plays its own fiddle. After a recent Ellington concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Critic Leonard Feather coolly dissected the Duke's Night Creatures concerto: "Ellington played jazz, and the orchestra played classical music. If you put rubies and diamonds on the same string, you don't have a necklace of novel stones-just diamonds and rubies...
Caruso's Canio in Pagliacci. But every modern Boris has at least one feather in his cap, and-since Russians still consider Boris their operatic masterwork-most of them come from Moscow. Both Hines and London have sung the role there, and both now claim to be about to make a recording of the opera with the Bolshoi company. Khrushchev himself applauded London, but last week, when Hines sang his Grand Guignol Boris at the Met, Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko came backstage and said, "You are Boris...
...department-store windows across the country, bowlers are being sold to real-life women at a furious rate. Most popular in straw, they come in every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely to flatten them or leave them bedraggled...
...what if the alternate to mass feather bedding is mass unemployment? In both the newspaper, shipping and railroads, technological progress is not creating jobs while it obviates them. Nor will railroad jobs be opening up twenty years hence. The fact is that automation renders certain jobs and skills extraneous, and just a handful of growth industries (chemicals, electronics, book publishing) are expanding at a rate broad enough to offset the modernization lay-offs...
Thus last week Iran's huge, $67.2 million "Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Dam." highest in the Middle East* went into operation as another feather in the crown of the country's 43-year-old reform-minded monarch. To help finance the dam. the World Bank loaned Iran $42 million, but the rest of the cash came from the Shah's $300 million annual oil revenues. To oversee the project. Iran picked two ex-chairmen of the U.S.'s Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who now head a Manhattan-based consulting firm...