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...once, diplomacy did a new quickstep in Djakarta. As if anxious not to get too tied to the Communists or too detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
...compete with the doomed defiance of The Confederacy's Rebel-yell finale. But The Union's alternately triumphant and melancholy Civil War music, again grouped by Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, stirs gallant ghosts and makes fine listening. The Grand Army starts off to war with a rousing quickstep, soon changes its tune to fit a war for which-as Historian Bruce Catton points out in an album essay-hardly any of the soldiers were prepared. The disillusion of the troops is powerfully clear in the campfire dirge, Tenting Tonight...
With this off his chest, the President lifted his chin toward another questioner and shifted back into his usual verbal quickstep. He announced that he would take another look at the Midwest flood areas on his way home from the Japanese Peace Conference at San Francisco-adding, amid groans from his interrogators (who must follow him), that he proposed to do some of his flood-area inspecting on foot. Then he casually stood off yet another attempt to smoke him out on that most fascinating of subjects: 1952. He was asked if he would comment on a magazine article...
...Tishomingo Blues" is a slow number for a smooth Davison-Archey coup; "Sensation" a quickstep for Baby Dodds' imaginative drums. Those who like Chippie Hill's brash singing will clap their hands for joy when they play "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," for the venerable lady appears here for one side...
...that Kay Boyle's novels so often disappoint? She has a glittering style that seizes the reader and carries him away at a nervous quickstep. But when the reader drops exhausted at the end, he is apt to feel more cheated than rewarded. Her tense characters are whipped by urgencies too violent for the problems they face; and as people, they don't stand a chance of survival between the same covers with Author Boyle's high-tension, consuming prose...