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...wanted to be a drama critic for as long as he can remember: "I was aisle-struck, not stagestruck.'' Born in Malden, Mass., of Greek parents of Anatolian origin, Kalem spoke Greek before English. At Harvard, he remembers being thrilled by the late Ted Spencer reading Shakespeare aloud, and Hamlet remains his favorite play. One month after emerging from Harvard (A.B. '42, cum laude), Kalem was in the Army. With the 24th Division in the Philippines, he won the Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed...
Gross tonnage is not the weight of a ship, it is a measurement, in units of 100 cubic feet, of the volume of enclosed space in the hull and superstructure. "Gross tons" is believed to have had its origin in the number of huge casks (tuns) of wine that oldtime ships had the space to carry...
Without once mentioning the S.A.O. by name, De Gaulle made a scathing attack upon it. He poured scorn on "unworthy Frenchmen launched into subversive and criminal activities" who were "exploiting and aggravating the anxiety of a segment of the population of European origin, the nostalgia of certain elements of the army, the rancor and the ambition of several military leaders or available politicians." They would fail, cried De Gaulle, because "the nation itself unanimously scorns and condemns these people, their conspiracies and their attacks...
Mania for Numbers. The origin of such mechanical music is much older than Orwell. The German mathematician Baron Gottfried von Leibniz (1646-1716) observed that "composers are simply men with a mania for numbers." Others have also noted the persistent relationship between music and math-between pure science and pure art. Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid...
Revolution with Anisette. The S.A.O. phenomenon is in part explained by the special character of the 1,000,000 Europeans of Algeria. They hold French citizenship, but only one-quarter of them are of French origin. The rest are immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, from Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Corsica and other Mediterranean lands. Out of this melting pot has emerged a distinct race who call themselves pieds-noirs, or "black feet" (supposedly because most of their ancestors arrived without shoes), combining Spanish poise with Italian