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Sergei Prokofiev was one of seven Soviet composers (among the others: Khachaturian and Shostakovich) denounced in 1948 "for formalistic and anti-democratic tendencies in music which are alien to the Soviet people." Confessing his "guilt," the great Russian composer promised to mend his Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death...
...supporting France, the U.S. will also help mend its sagging NATO fences. However one regards the Congo crisis, it certainly demonstrated a disturbing lack of western unity. No matter how much the U.S. feels pressured by the increasing momentum of African nationalism, it cannot forget its allies and its interests...
...desk. Most G.O.P. Senators would have run to Nixon's side, but Maggie runs her own show, with her own organization in Maine, and pays little heed to the regular state machine or the National Committee. She turned her back on the Republican Convention last July, chose to mend her fences in Maine instead...
...between the ages of 18 and 55." Furthermore, some of the most prevalent ailments do not require extremely expensive hospital treatment. Continental found that 60% of the people 65 and over who become ill have a hospital confinement of 30 days or less, and in this time either mend...
Every Thursday night, as many as 150 alcoholics-on-the-mend line up for their shots of vitamin B12. The nerve-soothing vitamins are paid for partly by the Corktown Guild, whose members are mostly bartenders, and partly by the Corktown Coop, made up of men trying to rehabilitate themselves, who scavenge scrap to raise the money for their injections...