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...Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...
...notes in Paris fashions this spring is the maternity-style top -for women without child. It has a loose, comfortable style that was born of the peasant blouses still available in the bazaars of Europe. If that isn't enough to give the nonpregnant pause, two young Manhattan women have designed and are selling the Pregnancy Puff-an egg-shaped, beige satin pillow that ties on round the middle with pink and blue satin ribbons. It has just one function: worn under clothing, it makes a woman look pregnant...
Neither the U.S. nor China made any significant public mention of the ensuing negotiations for two months. The Mainland press did allot considerable space to worker and peasant denunciations of Nixon's inaugural address, but it did not refer to the talks until in late January, 1969, when the U.S. State Department announced the defection of Liao Ho-shu, a Chinese diplomat in the Netherlands. Then, on February 4, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Information Department in Peking said that both the removal of Liao Ho-shu to the U.S. and American hostility to China show that "U.S. President...
Free Land. Before the current land reform, U.S. studies had ranked South Viet Nam among the world's four worst areas in terms of peasant landlessness, that classic precondition for rural insurrection.* As much as 58% of the rural population lived a hand-to-mouth existence as tenant farmers-a higher level of landlessness than in prerevolutionary China, Russia or Cuba...
...policy based on the idea that one way of assuring world peace is to ostracize China. This yellow disease!" (Richard Nixon would now agree.) As for Communism, Nyerere wonders: "What is its application to Africa? How do you preach it in Sukumaland [a district of Tanzania]? In a peasant country, without feudalism, how do you do it? From a distance, Africa may look like a classical Communist situation. But, in reality, it's a Sukumaland situation...