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...muses began musing on the music business. He took to it like Barnum to bun kum. Once he billed a sorry troupe of dancers as terpsichorean exponents of "Vice, Horrors and Ecstasy," then hurriedly had to schedule extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among his clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a young redheaded violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian modern dancers, one of whose members, a slim, dark-eyed blonde named Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, later shortened her name to Mrs. Rudolf Bing...
...Situation ethics" is rapidly gaining ground in U.S. divinity schools as a way of systematic thinking about morality, and it claims an impressive array of advocates. In Europe it has found a home in the thinking of Karl Earth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann. Its chief American exponents include Paul Lehmann of Union Theological Seminary, James Gustafson of Yale, and Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. In a recent issue of Commonweal, and in a book called Situation Ethics that Westminster will publish this spring, Fletcher offers a lively, readable defense and definition of this...
...Shirley Hazzard when a collection of her short stories was published in 1963. As evocative as but perhaps less crisp than the young Katherine Mansfield? An ear for dialogue that matches Elizabeth Bowen's but lacks her sure sense of social structure? And somehow falls short of Rosamond Lehmann...
...Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 49, making her belated debut at the Met singing the demanding role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Blondly radiant, and in sure control of her pure soprano, grown a shade harder over the years, Schwarzkopf proved that her Marschallin is still the most memorable since Lotte Lehmann's in the 1930s...
...since two psychiatrists first gave North American patients the new drugs that were soon to be widely known as tranquilizers. In so doing, they started the most dramatic and hopeful revolution in the long, dolorous history of mental illness. They are still at it. Berlin-born Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann, who introduced chlorpromazine at Verdun Protestant Hospital outside Montreal, is barnstorming at meetings called to find ways of developing still more and better drugs. New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline, who introduced reserpine at Rockland State Hospital, is in Iran, fomenting a psychiatric revolution there. Just before...