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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M. W. ARMSTRONG Wilmington...
...syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired Army Lieut. General James M. Gavin in his book War and Peace in the Space Age (TIME, Aug. 11): "We are in second place militarily and in second place in the exploration of space." The syndrome had one of its most remarkable manifestations last fortnight, when Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy arose...
...m all in favor of the best and closest possible Pan-American relations," said the new ambassador last week. As a starter, Hedges, who describes himself as "married, but single'' (his third divorce is in the works), rented the finest suite in the Copacabana Palace Hotel and set out to make friends...
Richard Strauss was born in Munich and lived there, or not far away, much of his life, but he feuded with the staid Münchners for rejecting his first (1893) opera, Guntram. The Munich Opera dropped it after only one disconsolate performance. Strauss's revenge: his very next opera, Feuersnot (1901), a go-minute twitting of Munich's conservative burghers. At the current Munich Festival, opera fans flocked to see their first Feuersnot in more than 20 years, heartily applauded the lampooning administered to them from across the footlights...
...ribald tale of Kunrad, a young sorcerer, whose ardor for the virgin Diemut scandalizes the whole town. Derided and humiliated by them. Kunrad takes his revenge by magically extinguishing every fire in Munich, leaving the helpless bluenoses in chilly darkness. Kunrad delivers a 20-minute homily to the chastened Münchners (dramatically cumbersome, but Strauss insisted he had written the opera only for the sake of that speech. Soon all Munich is busily engineering Kunrad's conquest and Diemut's capitulation-which occurs offstage but to almost pornophonically explicit music from the orchestra...