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...whopping 22 of the 29 seats in the legislature-a gain of seven. In the sweep, the People's Party was all but wiped out; it lost four of its five seats in the last legislature and suffered the additional humiliation of seeing the voters reject Mme. Kamejiro Senaga, wife of the party's spellbinding boss. (The other six legislature seats went to the mildly leftist Socialist Masses Party and a conservative independent.) With uncommon political maturity, most Okinawans had clearly accepted Liberal Democrat Ota's common-sense argument that in a time of cold...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Music of Romance, dramatized episodes from Tchaikovsky's life, with Helen Hayes as his patroness, Mme. Von Meek, playing opposite Farley Granger as the composer. Color...
...Poor Mme. Morisot, the public hardly knows her!" wrote Impressionist Camille Pissarro on the day in 1895 that he heard of the death of his good friend Berthe Morisot. Compared with the following of her great contemporaries, Berthe Morisot's public has always been modest but no history of the impressionist movement could now overlook her. The reason was clear last week at Manhattan's Wildenstem gallery, where 69 of her works hung in the largest Morisot exhibition ever held...
Historian Blanch (The Wilder Shores of Love) finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
Joel F. Henning '61 was there, doubtless scouting talent. Three diminutive Mme. La Farges were there knitting and waiting for the heads to drop. They didn...