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...with a thoroughness reminiscent of the Stalinist purges of the 1950s. Although people do not simply disappear any more, and the wide-scale arrests that were anticipated after the invasion have not taken place, 46 liberals were tried and sentenced this year, and more are under detention. Party Chief Gustav Husák, himself a purge victim during Czechoslovakia's Stalin era, has "consolidated" the Communist Party, cutting back its membership by almost one-half, to a total of 1,000,000. Communists thus expelled have usually lost their jobs, together with their party cards. Former Party Chief Alexander...
...workable solution to these difficulties is: go Baroque. Abandon your arid twentieth-century musicology as well as your heroic nineteenth-century slush, and look upon this music with the relative simplicity of a Baroque composer-performer. Obviously easier said than done; but Monday evening both Brueggen and eminent harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt succeeded admirably in this life-giving approach to the music of a lost tradition...
...three works performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. In a refreshing and varied program. Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Musical Director, also presented Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2. and the Symphony' No. 1 in D Major by Gustav Mahler...
...talents, instead of on their class origins. More important, World War II decimated the age group now in its 50s, so more men in their 30s and 40s have been drawn into leadership positions. There has also been a gentle cultural drift toward more respect for youth. Says Nils Gustav Grotenfelt, 49-year-old chairman of the Finnish Paper Mills Association: "We are going back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Most of the world's great leaders then were under 40. We have decided that the greater experience of age does not necessarily outweigh the greater daring...
...black, and for the first time in Olympic history the flags of 122 competing nations and the Olympic flag flew at half-staff. Munich's Philharmonic orchestra played the sad strains of the funeral movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Declared West Germany's President Gustav Heinemann: "We stand helpless before a truly despicable...