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...Goofy-Cousin-Clara sort of a girl with a grin full of teeth, a manner both tentative and brash, and a talent that comes bubbling up every time she opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera, despite her demurrer: "I'm never on when...
...Germany, as in the rest of Western Europe, it pays to be bourgeois these days. Hence the absence of Marxist slogans when the West German Socialists met in Cologne last week for their 1962 party convention. Hardly anyone called anyone else "comrade," and the lone red flag on the podium was half hidden behind a bank of hydrangeas and chrysanthemums. Outside in the convention hall's parking lot were the new caste marks of the delegates without dogma: Mercedeses, Opels and Volkswagens...
...where he found "sun-tanned gods and goddesses" at Stanford, good students and a History and Literature program that he likes greatly at Harvard. Some of those who took History 150b this term recall the lecturer as a figure swaying gently back and forth at the podium, obviously, amusedly and earnestly interested in ideas for their own sake...
When they win a podium, the Communists deliver set pieces praising "socialist life," denouncing segregation and U.S. nuclear testing. But most intensively these days, they attack the Internal Security Act of 1950, which requires the U.S. Communist Party to register as an arm of the Soviet Union. Now under indictment for failing to do so, the party leaders are merrily raking over what Gus Hall calls "this monstrous law," which, he insists, "actually provides for concentration camps." Why do students listen? Hall hopefully attributes the Red boomlet to student interest in hearing what a live Communist actually says as compared...
...planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow from his pen in years...