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Tempting people to acquire appliances before the old ones wheeze out, the industry is busy adding new-or at least newish-models. After noting that 75% of the 7,000,000 black-and-white TV sets sold this year will be inexpensive portables, RCA last week brought out a new portable priced...
...best Messiah now available is the newish Angel stereo recording conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (Angel 3598 C). It's not up to the old mono recording--the Huddersfield Choral Society are worse than usual--but it's not unacceptable. The soloists' names are relatively unfamiliar in this country (with the possible exception of the tenor, Richard Lewis), but Sir Malcolm, unlike Sir Adrian, has used them to good advantage, restrained his extravagances, and produced a restrained, lyrical, and generally balanced Messiah...
...time when the Executive branch is beginning to understand the nature of foreign aid. The revolt is especially unexpected because the Congress--even though it rejected Mr. Kennedy's plea for longterm borrowing authority over five years last summer--had appeared to be educating itself to the newish concept of "sustained assistance...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...