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...datorium. Some vestiges of Merola's Neapolitan hand still persist in the company's top-heavy Italian repertoire. Last week, Adler opened the new season with a week of pure paesani, starting with Aïda - as the company has done so often that a local critic named the War Memorial Opera House the Aïdatorium. But the new season also includes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Strauss's Capriccio, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades - all operas the Met audience will...
Rare Peek. Some complaints persist, though, and some are legitimate. The overseas jazz audience could support far more than one group a year, and the program has yet to choose a modern jazz trio or quartet that would interest aficionados educated by the Voice of America's excellent jazz program. The only opera company that has ever been sent abroad is the Santa Fe Opera, which was triumphant in Berlin and Belgrade two years ago with Douglas Moore's Ballad of Baby Doe-a rare and rewarding peek at the best of American opera...
...taxpayer be required to help an anti-American, Communist-leaning country like Indonesia? The report questioned the wisdom of continuing open-handed aid to the politically unstable Near East-Israel and its Arab enemies. It recommended that Congress consider the "withholding of economic assistance from those countries which persist in policies of belligerence and in preparations for their execution." It suggested drastic reductions in aid to both India and Pakistan until they settle their longstanding disputes...
...never read your reports on the Anglican part of Christ's one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church without wincing -and especially because you persist in categorizing us as Protestants, though we are nothing of the kind, notwithstanding what some churchmen may think in their superficial approach to religion. No informed Anglican will deny that his religion is reformed, but he must maintain that it is Catholic...
Marxism pretends that it raises people above race and nation, but Moscow and Peking are divided by racial hostility and memories of conflict, which would persist even if ideological differences could be ironed out. Russia has never forgotten the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, which swept west from Mongolia in the 13th century, conscripting Volga boatmen into the Khan's army and forcing local princes to kowtow. When, after 200 years, the Mongol Empire collapsed, the newly united Russians lost no time in getting even...