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Popovich was picked for the Soviet space program in 1960. His jovial spirits often relieved the tedium of many of the training missions at the Russian space center. During one long isolation test in a cramped training capsule, he combatted boredom by dancing and singing operatic arias with such gusto that scientists and doctors often gathered to listen. A voracious reader, Popovich is an admirer of Hemingway and Stendhal, can quote passages from the works of Soviet Poets Sergei Yesenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ironically, both Yesenin and Mayakovsky committed suicide after becoming disenchanted with Communism...
...with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige in Article 330, is a lithe-limbed and limber-tongued Australian who gives the part a cockney gusto which it lacks in the original, improving from time to time on Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would have approved, I am sure. As Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort of David Niven almost...
BRITAIN'S new Chancellor of the Exchequer has a voracious appetite for good food-and tackles complex economic issues with the same gusto. Youngest of six postwar Tory Chancellors (he is 45), breezy, beefy Reginald Maudling is a warm, relaxed middle-of-the-roader with a fast, fluent tongue and a nimble mind. He likes to recall the advice of his tutor at Oxford: "Philosophy progresses not by finding the answers but by progressively clarifying the questions." Reggie Maudling's talent for clarifying policy questions-and finding answers-has earned him recognition as one of the most vigorous...
...Rhapsody over, Goodman and company piled into their more familiar repertory-such songs as Let's Dance and One O'Clock Jump-with a gusto that brought the audience to its feet and saved the evening. Vocalist Joya Sherrill, in strapless white gown, belted out a medley of show tunes, broke into a fractured Russian jazz version of the popular song Katyusha, finally set the crowd roaring by drawling out a throaty "Spasibo bolshoe" (Thank you very much). After five encores, the band signed off with its theme song, Let's Dance. The audience continued to clap...
...constant faculty pressures, is colorless. Dodds talks only parenthetically about the joys of the office, about communicating with people, about activating ideas, about the myriad parts of the presidential personality and potential that fall under no specific "function." Dodds' president does not look forward to impending crises with gusto or glee; he does not seek to use his office or his power; he does not improve the strong, only patches up the weak. There is little wonder that such an academic president has little communication with the community he oversees...