Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schoenberg: Piano Concerto (Claude Helffer; Paris' Orchestre Radio-Symphonique conducted by René Leibowitz; Period). A decade old, this piece is one of Schoenberg's definitive twelve-tone works. For all its hyper-complex rhythms and counterpoint, it has a richly romantic expression, and its solo part is a dazzling piece of virtuosity...
When the presidential plane Columbine landed at Washington last week, the distinguished Frenchmen aboard were far from happy. Premier René Mayer had started the week by threatening to resign, a tactic that persuaded the French Assembly into accepting a new $220 million emergency loan. This delayed the start from Paris, and the plane's pilot had flown through a storm instead of circling it in order to make connections with the Columbine in New York...
...Alternative Policy. At the head of the delegation was pipe-smoking French Premier René Mayer, blowing a few optimistic smoke rings. "I will speak in the U.S.," he told his countrymen, "in the name of a country which is ready to participate in the construction of Europe provided that her position as a world power be recognized." Mayer, who came to power chiefly by promising the Gaullists severe changes in the EDC treaty, had come round to strong support for it-subject to a few modifications, of course. "When the time comes," said he last week, "the French Parliament...
...Around René Mayer's chief companion on the trip to Washington, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the visibility was not so clear. Washington had small, agile Georges Bidault pegged as a clever man caught between sympathy for the European Army plan and his own strong desire to become President of France next year. He is maneuvering in the thickets of French politics for a formula which will not only squeeze EDC through the Assembly-a heroic task in itself-but will also get Georges Bidault the later political support of varied, often opposing political factions. Bidault joined Mayer last...
...Korea, and plans are afoot to increase the number of Viet Nam troops from 150,000 to 200,000 by the end of the year. Last week Washington called home its able ambassador in Saigon, Donald R. Heath, to take part in the conferences with France's Premier René Mayer. Said Ambassador Heath: "I should like to underline once more my unshakable conviction that the Associated States [of Indo-China] will be successful in protecting their freedom," and that a military solution is possible "within the reasonably near future...