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Another book about Igor Stravinsky? No, not just another book. Lillian Libman's A nd Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, published this week (Norton; $9.95), has already, sight unseen, caused the music world's most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...woman whom they both loved and sacrificed, because she was destroying their own fraternal love. The End of the Duel stands out as one of the most absurd and horrible tales, told with cool, impeccable gravity. Two soldiers, captured and condemned to death, play out a long-standing feud by running a race with their throats slit, while fellow prisoners, awaiting their own executions, place their bets...
...dangerously turning its resources to ideological purposes-harassing political radicals and even liberals, accumulating a frightening inventory of dossiers. And even within Hoover's granitically disciplined bureau, the cracks were showing. Morale had deteriorated. Last fall Hoover forced out one of his top deputies, William Sullivan, in a feud that jarred the bureau's highest ranks...
...been killed. Pleading guilty to murder, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston confessed that the union had arranged the assassination of Rebel Miner Joseph Yablonski, along with his wife and daughter; only the sons escaped. It was a story that had all the elements of an Appalachian blood feud: robbery, violence, revenge and no remorse...
...bitter feud is developing over the selection of a new City Manager, although the liberal five--Ackermann, Henry F. Owens III, Robert Moncreiff, Saundra Graham and Francis H. Duehay--made the replacement of City Manager John Corcoran the top issue of their campaign...