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...Practically a God." He got his chance in April 1959 when Castro visited Montreal on his famous trip to the U.S. and Canada. There to meet Fidel at the airport was Schoeters, a one-man student welcoming committee from the University of Montreal. Three months later, in answer to Castro's plea for "technicians," Schoeters, his wife and ten university students flew to Cuba. For two weeks they toured the island as Castro's guests. On his return, Schoeters excitedly informed friends that "Castro is practically a god." There was another trip in 1960, and this time...
...career as a one-man language school is a long parenthesis in the comedy of misunderstanding. Not only is teacher always playing hooky from his own school, but one of his students, who is a Dickensian portrait of infatuated complacence, actually loses command of the few English phrases he started with...
...festival grosses $85,000 yearly-which is to say that Wallace A. Ross grosses $85,000 a year, because the almost imperceptible fact is that the American TV Commercials Festival is essentially a one-man show. The man is Wally Ross, 39, who is just a little less aggressive than a 200-lb. gnat...
Early Fascination. Once he got out of an English prisoner-of-war camp in 1945, Henze began staging what amounts to a one-man revival of German music. But since 1952, he has lived in Italy as something of a cultural exile. "I was eager to leave the growing materialism and persisting narrowness of my motherland," he says. His music, though, remains German in its contrapuntal structure, and it is still played mostly in die Heimat. But respectful German critics readily grant Henze his Stravinskian legacy and the Italianate influences in his music. Says H. H. Stuckenschmidt, one...
...Binghamton, people always thought Moore was peculiar. He was a pacifist and an atheist, who even objected to the words "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins. Binghamton was accustomed to his one-man picket parades. Whether urging fluoridation of the local water supply or protesting against the downtown display of an Atlas missile or prayers in public schools, Moore would hang a sign around his neck and start marching...