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Hunter's story is based loosely on a novel by Sax Rohmer, the creator of the formidable Fu Manchu. Fu, you may recall if your youth was as misspent as mine, was a satanic supermind who ran a terrorist organization called the Si Fan, "to which fully one-third of the world's colored races belong," and while he never quite achieved the complete global domination he so earnestly sought, Fu Manchu sure came close as dammit on a number of occasions...
Last week Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards went to Shantung province and wrecked the birthplace of Confucius. For 2,400 years, the Chinese have studied his counsels of moderation and nonviolence. The zealots who desecrated his shrine at Chu Fu, reported the Peking People's Daily, had buried Confucianism "once and for all." In the madness that Red China has become, the act was highly symbolic...
Adviser to Presidents, U.S. Army brigadier general and chief communications aide to Dwight Eisenhower in Europe, Sarnoff, at 75, would be more than justified if he were to retire. But he remains "too fascinated with the fu ture." Although he has relinquished his title of chief executive officer...
After stating his request, Pope Paul inspired speculation that he himself might retire when he reaches 75. He made a pilgrimage to the castle of Fu-mone, near Rome, where Celestine V lived upon quitting the papacy in 1294 -an exemplar of a Pope who retired. Dante condemned Celestine's abdication as an act of cowardice and relegated him to the antechamber of hell. Paul chicled Dante and enigmatically went on to praise Celestine, both for accepting the papacy against his will and for stepping down when he realized that he was not equal to the task...
Opera HANDEL: SERSE (Westminster; 3 LPs). One of the greatest boons of the expanding recorded repertoire was the debut last year on vinyl of Handel's Rodelinda; now comes his tragicomic opera Serse, or Xerxes, which begins with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra...