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AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the supposedly myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
...which are characterized by the predominant role of the first violin, here brilliantly played by Eli Goren. In the C Major he tirelessly weaves a long garland of arpeggios and trills, then plunges into an adagio of exceptional beauty, tracing a hopeful obbligato above a deep-voiced Hungarian lament...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the meddlesome, myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
...Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...
...bases its case on the point that Morgan Guaranty made its purchases largely before the Dow-Jones ticker moved the news at 10:55. But Lamont contends the news was hardly secret by that time. As Lament's lawyer argued: "A director is not required to await publication of information in one particular medium before he joins in dissemination...