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...often executed on the spot. Huk agents exact tribute and taxes from thousands of Filipinos. The biggest collection center is Angeles City near the U.S. Air Force's Clark Field. Maids for American families must pay five pesos ($1.25) monthly to the Huks; Huk treasurers take a big rake-off from the gambling parlors and bars frequented by U.S. troops...
...Tory leadership, he was hated with rare passion by his enemies, notably Liberal Leader William Gladstone, and often only barely trusted by his own lieutenants. Intrigued more by power than principle, too cynically clever by half in an age craving sober dignity in its statesmen, forever trailing a rake's reputation, Disrael was the great gate crasher of his times...
...Henry Luce's genius was his ability to bring together talented people of widely varying backgrounds and points of view to work in concert. Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky. Tall, erect, with clear blue eyes that could rake a room like a laser beam?or twinkle as merrily as Mr. Pickwick's ?he talked with a staccato concentration of word and thought that one associate described as "jammed machinegun" style. And, as his pastor, Dr. David H. C. Read, noted last week, "he listened too?with...
SHOSTAKOVICH: THE EXECUTION OF STEPAN RAZIN and SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Melodiya-Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...early 18th century, William Hogarth became Britain's first great painter, winning that distinction with an art charged more with dramatic subject matter than seductive style. He called himself an "author" rather than an artist, and works came out like serial scenes of a play. He illustrated a rake's progress in eight pictures, a harlot's downfall in six. "My picture is my stage," he wrote, and he made it roar with rogues in wrinkled breeches and buxom wenches in disarray...