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...image before their mind's eye would be that of Nikita Khrushchev, grinning like a delinquent adolescent as he pounded his desk and shouted. By his own doing, Khrushchev last week engraved himself upon the world's memory as a man indifferent to or contemptuous of civilized restraint and parliamentary procedures, a dictator deluded by the conviction that his vast power frees him from the obligation to show a decent respect for the opinions of mankind...
Rome, the city of grandiose ruins, was "erected by parvenus," new-rich "imperial lunatics" with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse...
...reverse side, the Glee Club sings with more restraint and is considerably more impressive. In a particularly excellent performance of Josquin's "Gloria" from Missa Master Patris et Filia, the strained tone of the pep rally numbers is no longer evident. The Glee Club sings this type of music with especial resonance and precision. The classical repertoire is, on the whole, very well performed under the sensitive guidance of Mr. Forbes, who coaxes both elegant gentleness and sturdy vigor from his forces...
When the U.S. State Department asked television networks to show restraint-i.e., schedule no special Khrushchev appearances-the suggestion was resented as unnecessary. The Mutual radio network, which claimed to have received no such Government advisory, went ahead with its invitations to ten U.N. visitors, among them Khrushchev, to be interviewed. One TV network official recalled bitterly that only a year ago the State Department had pleaded for kind treatment to the Soviet Premier, on the ground that it would be reciprocated when Eisenhower visited Russia (Khrushchev, after the U-2 incident, reneged on his part of the deal...
...difficult to believe that there could be a sympathetic answer to such a calendar of horrors. Yet the Congo's representative, Thomas Kanza, 27, who is one of only 16 university graduates in his nation of 14 million, went far to accomplish it. Speaking with dignity and restraint, he noted that there were other victims besides the unfortunate Belgian women: the Congolese themselves...