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...year-old Ballantine's Scotch that he consumed in moderate rations (down from the half quart a day of former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also...
NAKED woman, black woman, clothed with your color which is life, with your form which is beauty . . ./ Your solemn contralto voice is the spiritual song of the beloved." So wrote Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor. A beautiful Ghanaian playwright and teacher, Effua Sutherland, recently tried to describe another aspect of the African woman's traditional role. "She is a goddess because she founds society. Her breasts are more of a motherly symbol than a sexual one. She is the power behind man." Mrs. Sutherland carefully recited the words of English Explorer Mary Kingsley, who once wrote...
NOTEBOOKS OF A DILETTANTE by Leopold Tyrmand. 240 pages. Macmillan...
...American foreigner attempting to convert anti-American Americans, Leopold Tyrmand has had remarkably grim grounds for comparison. He arrived here from Poland at age 45, after living through some of the worst experiences that Western civilization has had to offer. He survived stints in Russian and German prisons in World War II, and for a time was a member of the underground. He was equally opposed to the Communist takeover of Poland at the end of the war, and in his position as a popular novelist and journalist, he became one of the most outspoken opponents of the Gomulka regime...
...examines the popular culture of this century, it becomes clear that one of its many elements does remain constant. That element is murder. Games and dance crazes come and go, but murder-and all its paraphernalia, guns and knives and rope-stays in style year after year. Remember Leopold and Loeb, Lizzie Borden, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Lindberg kidnapping, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy? If not, how about Texas sniper Charles Whitman, Chicago nurse murderer Richard Speck, the Boston Strangler and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...