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Last week Ottawa made public its decision. External Affairs Secretary Sidney Smith marched to the General Assembly podium and put Canada squarely behind the U.S. resolution on Red China's ad mission. Said Smith: "Peace cannot be won by giving in to force. That is a lesson people of my generation have learned at heavy cost...
Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
...hour hand of the clock high on the wall of the National Assembly crept past 3, the hour of final reckoning arrived for the Fourth Republic. In hushed silence the Deputies watched General Charles de Gaulle in a single-breasted grey suit stride to the podium, heard him proclaim in less than seven minutes the terms on which he had accepted the summons to power...
...young man on the podium was flogging the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra at a dead run through Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony when a handclap sounded from the raised platform at the rear. "Mr. Goldstein," said Conductor William Steinberg with icy politeness, "why are you in such a hurry? We do admire the playing of the orchestra, and we are surprised they can play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while...
...What is that dog howling in the night?" intoned blonde, hazel-eyed Actress Felicia Montealegre, 36, from the script. Cracked Conductor Leonard Bernstein from the podium: "That's no dog, that's my wife.'' For their first professional appearance together, Lennie and his wife Felicia were rehearsing Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's sprawling dramatic oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake. Last week, with the full orchestra buttressed by assorted soloists, a boys' choir and a mixed chorus of 150 voices, the Bernsteins wound up the New York Philharmonic's season with...