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...terribly logical ways of classical music" and a yen for the rockier paths of atonality. Composer Norman Dello Joio, 46, is an unabashed romantic with a lucidly lyrical touch and scorn for the "black-noted paper" school of composers, who "feel sorry for themselves because they are misunderstood." Last week Composers Rochberg and Dello Joio each unveiled new works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Premieres | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Tula came the raucous sound of still another blatant Khrushchev threat to Berlin and the peace of the world (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower replied at his press conference with a statement that set down the U.S. position on Berlin with a precision that could not be misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Duty & Deeds | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...accomplish peace through law will take patience and perseverance. It will require us at times to provide an example by accepting for ourselves standards of conduct more advanced than those generally accepted. We shall be misunderstood for our motives, misinterpreted by others who have had no such training as we in doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NO NOBLER MISSION | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Murrow & the Girls | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Poor to Bow. In achieving all of this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man of the Year | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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