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...this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
During the summer, when there were demonstrations almost every day, the mayor and the police chief admitted they were powerless to protect Negro lives and property. They called on Louisiana Governor John McKeithen, who sent in 600 state troopers, armed them with submachine guns, and told them to protect the marchers. Still there were incidents...
Most dangerous sparks of all, however, were flying in Zambia, Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, where moderate President Kenneth Kaunda was under mounting pressure to do something about the Smith takeover. Powerless to act on his own, and dependent on Rhodesian railroads and power to keep his vital copper exports flowing, Kaunda found himself being pressed to accept troops from those two eager conspirators, Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as military aid from Moscow and Peking. Kaunda wants no part of it. He believes there is real danger that Rhodesia could...
...final tragedy is that world pressure has crippled the white Rhodesian moderate. Those few citizens who still bother to openly criticize the government are practically powerless. Most others have given up trying or have begun to feel that while their country is being threatened by hostile forces from without, it would be tantamount to treason to voice an opinion against the government. Whereas just this summer I heard a Rhodesian lady say, "If I was an African, I would be right in the very front line fighting," now there is nearly complete white solidarity behind the government...
...veto may not have been the only reason for the delay. The DPW was busy winning approval of routes through Boston and Somerville. Having done this and having had the partial veto successfully removed, the DPW has rendered Cambridge virtually powerless...