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...communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation from his public for the past six years, spending most of his time in his Beverly Hills home and engaging in occasional chamber-music sessions with his friends Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violinist William Primrose. Next week he will begin teaching...
...McGregor, Australia's brilliant Whiz Kids. Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, lost only once-to the U.S. in 1954. In 1957 both players turned pro. A power hitter with flat-trajectory ground strokes, Hoad is the logical successor to No. 1 Pro Pancho Gonzales. A master scrambler, possessor of the game's best backhand. Rosewall is a frequent winner on the rich pro circuit...
Like Huck, speaking the superbly authentic dialect of his age and his place, Holden is a runaway from respectability, the possessor of a fierce sense of justice, the arbiter of his own morality. If one fact more than any other links Catcher to its generation, it is that for Holden?as presumably for his creator?the ultimate condemnation is summed up in the word phony. A whole, vague system of ethics centers around that word, and Holden Caulfield is its Kant...
Hoffmann declared that the U.S. must face the antiquity of its atomic "secrets," and pointed out that Europe is rapidly developing facilities for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. He went on to describe the problem of NATO as a possessor of nuclear deterrents...
...matter, let me set the record straight.* During these years Dick Nixon has participated with me and high officials of your Government in hundreds of important deliberative proceedings of the Cabinet, National Security Council and other agencies. His counsel has been invaluable to me." Nixon, he said, is "the possessor of a vast richness of experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy . . . man capable of calm decision in the midst of frenzy, a man who is neither intimidated by selfish pressure groups at' home nor tyrants abroad." It was all-out praise, and if political...