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Winnie Ille Pu, by A.A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Children who read Latin will find the adventures of Pu, Porcellus and lor delightful, and laggards who trotted through Caesar years ago will derive much pleasure, or at least prestige, if the book is seen about the house...
...translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster out of a Persian legend...
...better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
...young rowdies, both members of the tiny neo-Nazi German Reich Party, admitted desecrating the Cologne synagogue. "All decent Germans join me in condemning this atrocious act," Chancel lor Adenauer wired Cologne Rabbi Zw Asaria. A week later, without offering up any proof, the government said it was a "planned action designed to discredit the Federal Republic in the eyes of the world" and hinted that not cranks or crackpots but Communists were responsible...
...free if he is not protected by law from the spreading of malicious gossip about himself. If the law did regard the relationship between a reporter and his source of information as confidential, what would protect the individual from being slandered by an irresponsible columnist who could disclaim responsibility lor his malicious actions by pleading "confidential relationship...