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...good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress and the human world of the dyer...
...belief in decency and common sense, a faith in free enterprise-that the magazine sought to express. It distilled an almost mythic vision of small-town America that many of its readers were still living and others were already nostalgic about. It made even sophisticates realize, with a pleasant pang, that they were partly Penrods at heart...
...final chapters of Find a Victim and The Far Side of the Dollar this pang of identification is the germ of scenes of high domestic tragedy, moments without analogy in any recent writing. If MacDonald can be said to have any thematic obsession (and high art and obsession have been known to keep close company) it is the family: its tensions, its distorting cruelty, and its strange dignity. In each of these long concluding sequences Archer, and through him the reader, must witness at length the inexorable working-out of old guilts and old loves...
...Youth League, the organization designed to prepare 15-and 25-year-olds for Party membership, was next on the cleaning list. The League's director, Hu Yueh-pang, dropped out of sight while Mao looked around for a new youth organization. The story goes that the Chairman heard of some young people in a provincial high school who had organized themselves to study Mao's thought and demonstrate against bourgeois shop owners, Buddhists, and others slow to convert to Maoist ideology. Mao, it is said, was delighted with this spontaneous activity, gave it his blessing, and the Red Guards were...
...takes up in its article on middle age, there's the fact that in the period there are frequently last grasps at youth. Middle-aged men in particular, TIME says, will sometimes see a couple of young lovers in the park or somewhere and feel an actual physical pang, or they divorce their wives of 20 years' standing and go leaping off into a new marriage with a secretary. But these are the exceptions. The average middle-ager sublimates, and instead of pinching his secretary, he buys a convertible or starts drinking more than he used to. Most...