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...windswept east coast of England. The occasion was the 17th Aldeburgh Music Festival, where right from the start the main attraction has always been Townsman Britten. The premiere was just about to begin when a thunderstorm knocked out the electricity. When light was restored, Britten unfolded his hour-long opera, Curlew River, a moving parable patterned after an English medieval mystery play, but with strong No overtones in its echoes of Sumidagawa, its incantatory music and its austere dramatic styling. Did it mark a new "Oriental period" for Britten? Press and public agreed that Curlew River...
...minute trips turned into hour-long undertakings, and it was always rush hour in this siesta city, where people normally go home to celebrate the three-hour lunch. Business suffered, and so did social life; instead of zipping across Rome in their Ferraris to make three parties a night, the glitter set began going only to parties in the immediate neighborhood. Last week Rome was incredulously experiencing something nobody thought would ever happen again-traffic was moving...
Most of the regular counselors are sociologists or psychologists with a great deal of experience of listening to students' problems. In fact, active listening is probably the chief function of the counselor. Students attending the hour-long sessions hoping to be spoon-fed from a little package of Wisdom to tide them throught the week are liable to be disappointed. Counselors offer no pat answers to such questions as "How can I keep up in my studies?" simply because there aren...
...many sides. New York City's Health Commissioner, Dr. George James, said that the city was considering a labeling law of its own that could well extend to all the advertising carried by TV programs or publications originating in Manhattan. Even Lyndon Johnson kicked the industry in his hour-long television interview: "I gave up cigarette smoking because the doctor recommended that I do so, and I have missed it every day, but I haven't gone back to it, and I am glad that I haven...
Criminal Litany. The Turkish ultimatum brought this hesitancy to an end. Cyprus' U.N. Ambassador Zenon Ros-sides frantically asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. When it met, at 6:20 p.m. on Friday, Rossides excitedly recited an hour-long litany of alleged Turkish crimes. Turkey's veteran Ambassador Orhan Eralp made a five-minute rebuttal. Refusing to "rehash" the past, Eralp described the Turkish ultimatum as a "note of warning" that called for Greek Cypriot observance of "human rights." He concluded: "The time for words has passed. Let us proceed to action...