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GEORGE SZELL: MOZART PIANO QUARTETS (Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...fair to suspect that the odyssey was aimed in part at placating Ulbricht, who has been reading some bad news with a Moscow dateline in the papers these days. When the Soviet ambassador handed a note to the Bonn government on the Berlin issue last week, the Kremlin seemed to be serving notice that it now wants to deal directly with Bonn on issues involving the divided city. In the past, it has almost always let Ulbricht present the East Bloc's terms. The note repeats Moscow's apparent willingness to recognize the four-power partition of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Kremlin Express | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

Several people are writing up their trips: Sir Francis Chichester his sea adventures, Murray Kempton his sojourn in several American cities, Dan Wakefield a lengthy odyssey taken to find out what Americans think of Viet Nam, Norman Mailer's views of last October's protest march to the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Attractions | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...American President and his readiness to put them to use. On less than 24 hours' notice, he assembled an entourage of four jet planes and 300 people and spent the next five days in a dizzying, 26,959-mile circuit of the globe. The original reason for his cyclonic odyssey was to attend services for Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt. Characteristically, Johnson transformed it into a microcosm of his coming campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...search takes them not only past such familiar landmarks of the youthful odyssey as alienation and sex, but into symbolic realms of the unconscious-eerie night worlds filled with throbbing rhythms, shivery metallic tones, unsettling images. Swim to the moon, they sing, and "penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: Swimming to the Moon | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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