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...bearded revolutionary obviously recognizes that fact, and all through the OAS meetings he did his best to soften the blow. For weeks a felicitous Fidel has been humming a sweet reconciliation tune to the U.S. Last week his violent little brother Raúl, boss of Cuba's armed forces, joined the chorus. Speaking to several U.S. newsmen invited over to view the July 26 celebrations, Raúl crooned that Cuba was ready to sit down and talk with the U.S. "anywhere, any time-even on the moon...
Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos...
...world central bank and a single world currency. France's Robert Marjolin, first vice president of the Common Market, is also pressing for the "Marjolin Plan" that would unite nearly all the Six's fiscal and monetary policies in a super federal-reserve system. Argentina's Raúl Prebisch, who initiated and negotiated the Latin American Free Trade Association, was also the prime mover of the recent U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, is favored to become head of the ambitious global trade organization that grew out of that meeting. True, neither LAFTA...
...most successful Parisian theater scandals need as much care and planning as the most successful general strikes. The opening-night audience must arrive at the Paris Opéra knowing just how furious it will soon become; how else would everyone be sure to bring rotten eggs and carrots under his coat? The Paris press seemed to be coaxing up a fine rumble shortly after the first rehearsal of Maurice Béjart's new production of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared...
Social Drama. Under the sweep of Béjart's bizarre and dark imagination, the sum of such tricks was a triumph. A dusty and innocuous opera became a modern social drama-and such events are just what the Paris Opéra needs to improve on its present status as the place across the street from American Express. But Béjart was booed as well as cheered by his audience, and the papers barely let him get out of town before they began their battle: "Paroxysms of vulgarity," "A universe of fantasy and poetry." SHOULD...