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...most concertgoers a generation ago, Joseph Haydn was the composer of only twelve symphonies (inexplicably numbered 93-104), a few string quartets and the Austrian national anthem. According to the music-appreciation crowd, he was a genial papa figure who enjoyed a joke at the audience's expense and turned out a great deal of tinkly, tinseled music to light up the ballrooms of the Austrian nobility...
Nowadays, Papa is lighting up a good many more places. In what must be considered a permanent renewal of interest in 18th century music, Haydn is being hailed as one of history's leading musical revolutionaries. Listeners are discovering, most of them for the first time, the vibrant iconoclasm of a composer who began life by assimilating the even-patterned regularity of the style of his times and spent the rest of his career thumbing his nose...
...picture, but I know that it isn't fair to Haiti. "Greene's fictional Haiti," you say, "seems not very far removed from the real one . . . a Black Power station," etc. Well, this just isn't so. Greene found what he came looking for-Papa Doc, the Tontons Macoute, Black Power, a sick society. The visitor without this preconception will see little or nothing of Haiti's cloak-and-dagger world. He will be overwhelmed instead by the Haitian people who have spurned those who strutted in the capital and stole their taxes, from Dessaline...
...will never happen," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Shreiber, general director of the weekly magazine L'Express, "we are losing the industrial war." Nonetheless, the French Assembly, which has had many a battle over appropriations for the force, has given up fighting De Gaulle over it. Last week, while Papa de Gaulle viewed his growing baby, it passed a new force de frappe budget with hardly a murmur of dissent...
Greene's fictional Haiti, which seems not very far removed from the real one, is a Black Power station brutally run by "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his swaggering Gestapo, the Tontonx Maconte. Eventually, Ford realizes that in order to survive in Haiti he would have to become a vegetable himself; revolted by the wretched beggars and savage beatings, he escapes to the safety of the U.S. Burton envies the American's innocence, but he has been affected and infected by Ford's passion to obliterate evil. Thus, when Guinness flees the police and appeals for help, Burton...