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Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Oil-worth's July 4 oratory at Independence Hall rang true as the Liberty Bell and almost as familiar. When buttonholed about it later, the Main Line Democrat gave up the unwitting ghost, Historian
Confronted by these statistics, Negro leaders met last week in Jackson to discuss breaking off the attack. Worrying them more than arrests was the extent to which the Southern charge of "outside agitation" rang true. In what had gained momentum as a Southern Negro movement, 22 arrested Freedom Riders came from California, 13 from Illinois, others from Minnesota, Idaho, Wyoming and New Hampshire. Nevertheless, after three hours of discussion, the group voted to continue the movement. Whatever the caliber of the riders, their efforts were showing results of a sort. Jackson last week announced cancellation of a scheduled...
Apparently the terrorists were not willing to wait. All week long the Tyrol's quiet villages rang with explosions, aimed principally at the vulnerable high power system. Twenty percent of Bolzano's electricity was knocked out in the first two days. Whole factories shut down. Cars belonging to pro-Italian Tyroleans were bombed. Only one man was killed, a road worker who was blown apart trying to unstrap a bomb from a tree along the Brenner highway. But police averted a major disaster when they discovered and defused a bomb only an hour before...
While the country rang last week with commencement exhortations to cherish the spiritual legacy of the past, the graduating class at Princeton Theological Seminary heard that ancient dogma is a dangerously heavy burden. From the dean of Harvard Divinity School came the suggestion that Christianity may be at death's door, and that its spiritual legacy is more likely to push it through the door than the atheism of the present...
...performed at Florence's annual Maggio Musicale, The Merchant was a taut and impressive work. Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...