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Joys and Sorrows of Andalusia (Luis Maravilla, guitar; Pepe Valencia, voice; Westminster). The guitar is one instrument that sounds better on records than in the concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an...
From bases on Okinawa and Japan, the Far East Bomber Command sent out 63 B-29s to bomb the plant of the Oriental Light Metals Co. (prewar production: 40,000 metric tons of aluminum a year), situated four miles from the Yalu and eight miles from the Communist's...
Part of Pusan's plight is that of any squalid Oriental port, but much is due to the war. Refugees have swollen the population from 400,000 to 1,000,000. Many have no place to sleep except a pile of grimy rags in the streets or huts made...
With regional and global background always in mind, Dewey outlines the particular situation of each country visited. He faithfully records his talks with and impressions of Emperors, Presidents, Prime Ministers, U.S. ambassadors, and military commanders. But he has, at the same time, a surprising eye for telling quirks of Oriental...
It was a huge (33 by 45 feet) dazzling array of dancing lights and colors considerably more suggestive of the Byzantine east than of the Gothic north. The lines were angularly primitive, the colors warm turquoise blues, smoldering crimsons, emerald greens, rich topaz yellows. The figures and scenes had an...