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...technique marked him a decadent in Nazi Germany, and his operatic works since then have split his audience into two camps-the admiring and the appalled-with the critics generally on his side. He has a talent for finding high inspiration in avant-garde literature (Allen Ginsberg's Howl inspired his recent Antifone per Orchestra) and for attracting notable collaborators. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman (the librettists of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress) wrote the libretto for his Elegy for Young Lovers, and the collaboration remains among his happiest experiences. "Auden said that a libretto should...
...Christians, though they are diverting enough in their way. Like the Negro writer Littlepage, who exploits his pigmentation so fraudulently that Clem claims he is in blackface. The main question is the fate of Clem, and whether he will become a tragedian, rather than a clown able only to howl: "Land where no siblings cried, land where our freedoms died, land where Lux, Duz and Tide...
What could be more fun than a boys' summer camp? West turns it into a night mare. Camp Oo-patik-patok, the chief counselor tells his boys, is "home to the fierce he-wolf, home to the courageous howling pack." The boys are taught wolf traits, especially an ear-splitting howl; and on the last day of camp, they take turns baying at the moon, while their proud parents look on, secure in the knowledge that camp has made their little boy just like all the other little boys, i.e., as conformist as a wolf...
Gentleman's Agreement. Though Texas oil producers howl at Hofmokel's scheme, they have no recourse against it. And mere mention of the phrase "El Loophole" visibly sends Hofmokel's blood pressure soaring. "Sonabeetch," he explodes in his German-accented English. "It's no loophole. It's the law." The Interior Department, partly as a result of prodding from the State Department, agrees. Sagely, however, Hofmokel has concluded a gentleman's agreement with the Government: so long as Brownsville limits its oil imports to 30,000 bbl. a day, the U.S. will make...
...howl went up in West Germany, Russia's No. 1 oil-pipe supplier (633,000 tons from 1959 through last October). Just three and a half months ago, three giant Ruhr firms-Mannesmann, Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG, and Hoesch-signed a contract for another 200,000 tons. Ruhr steelmen denounced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a NATO stooge for trying to enforce the new rules. Taken aback, Adenauer's Cabinet last week agreed to reconsider, turned the problem over to a special subcommittee for special study...