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Persuasive Speech. The festival was organized as a salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with...
...waited to announce U.S. resumption until almost every segment of the nation was behind his decision." Is it not painfully obvious that he used every available facet of Government propaganda as well as an easily duped Fourth Estate to convince people that "there was no other choice"? GEORGE A. RICHTER JR. Abington...
...SIMPLE, HONORABLE MAN (309 pp.) -Conrad Richter- Knopf...
Back to Beginnings. It takes a heap o' writin' to use that sort of material in this day and age on anything more pretentious than a TV show, but 71 -year-old Conrad Richter has been making quiet, honest novels out of it for 25 years. The Town, part of his trilogy on frontier life in the Ohio territory (The Trees, The Fields, The Town), won a Pulitzer Prize...
Little Corn. Presumably this is Richter's own clergyman father. Religion can be a heavy garment for the young. If the preacher's son can be taken for Rich ter himself, he found the religious atmosphere oppressive - "his ear assailed by the peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner...