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Holding the $6,000 platinum flute long familiar to Philadelphia audiences, he launched into Kent Kennan's Night Soliloquy. Not even the uncertainties of TV sound could obscure Kinkaid's pure, clear and sweet tones, nor his carefully parsed phrasing. As always, Kinkaid's playing seemed effortless, as full of colors and nuances as a first-class singing voice. "No one is indispensable," said a fellow horn player at concert's end. "But Kinkaid...
...this attitude fits in with his having taken what, in contrast to the Herter-Kennan-Pearson end of the spectrum, might be called a right-wing or Dulles-type position on summitry and other cold-war relaxation measures. Despite his acute political trendex-consciousness, Rockefeller need therefore not be accused of political opportunism. His views seem consistent, and in this your correspondent is quite correct. Rockefeller simply represents a right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background...
...They will not be V.I.P. lectures where you talk on the fate of the world," Kennan said yesterday from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, where he is a Permanent Professor. Instead, he plans a "straight academic series," and hopes also to participate in some graduate seminars, perhaps at the Center for International Affairs...
During his visit to the College--for a week before and a month after spring vacation--Kennan will live in one of the Houses. Although Kennan said yesterday that he hoped to stay at several Houses "in rotation," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, said this would be difficult as "We couldn't very well shuttle him around every three days." Kennan said he is "very interested in meeting undergraduates," and Gilmore promised yesterday that various Houses will be able to have Kennan for dinner and evening meetings...
Author of the post-war policy of "containment," Kennan more recently advanced proposals for a "disengagement" on the continent. Since 1950 he has taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, except for his Ambassadorship...