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...Macmillan retreats inscrutably into Downing Street; Jo Grimond of the Liberals congratulates himself on the results of by-elections, tears down the other parties, and constructs a preposterous domestic platform. "Nice people, the British," Mr. Gaitskell imagined other nations saying shortly, "easy-going, kindly, tolerant; they have had a glorious past. The only trouble is their stagnation--somehow they have lost out, lost their dynamic." His is a very palpable fear; but if the dynamic is to be restored it must be done by the parties...
...Composer Giselher Klebe's opera Alkmene, a modern version of the Amphitryon legend, triumph awaited both Texas-born Stewart and his wife. Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear. Raved the influential Frankfurter Algemeine: "What Evelyn Lear as Alkmene and Thomas Stewart as Jupiter attained belongs among the most glorious achievements in all Berlin opera...
...Heaven exists." says the monsignor, placing his fingertips together. "That is all we know for sure. Some "theologians hold that heaven is everywhere, as God is. Most, however, deem it more appropriate that it should be a special place with definite limits-a glorious abode in which the blessed have their home. The church has decided nothing about its locality...
Right through to the glorious final Communio, the New York Pro Musica did far more than perform old music; it removed the patina from a neglected master, piece and presented it as living example of the vigor of the Renaissance...
Harvard pictured itself in 1959 as a glorious leader, showing other, less powerful, less enlightened schools the way out of the wilderness of federal control. President Pusey testified several times in Washington as part of a massive effort on the part of the enlightened schools to prod Congress into repealing the disclaimer affidavit provision. Last summer was supposed to be the climax of the great crusade, but nothing happened. President Kennedy, once a strong foe of the affidavit, evidently had more pressing concerns on his mind and had forgotten. Congress never gave the matter a second thought as it renewed...