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...Time. Between 1594 and 1611, Gesualdo published six books of madrigals that contain such daring harmony and such sensitivity that many historians consider him centuries ahead of his time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo...
...such an atmosphere of yearning, the Big Four foreign ministers met one evening at the Pacific Union Club, a squat, brownstone mansion atop Nob Hill, to savor California cracked crabs, guinea hen on ham, and strawberries Mary Pickford (coated with pineapple sherbet). "A month ago we were in Vienna," toasted the host, John Foster Dulles. "Tonight we dine in San Francisco. Within the month we will be at Geneva. We can all hope that the sources of friction between us have been reduced by our efforts." The city lay beneath them, glistening myriad lights at night, to the edge...
...Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the heretic who got away with it, this was a moment to savor. Splendidly adorned-braided cap, sky-blue military blouse with ribbons, red-striped slacks-he drove out to Belgrade's Zemun Airport and waited. Seven years before, Russia's masters had kicked Yugoslavia out of the Cominform, reviled Tito as "traitor," "fascist," "spy and murderer," urged his people to revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land...
...Congress in joint session stood up and cheered when Syngman Rhee, 79, made his way through the crowded House last week. For Rhee, a longtime back-street resident of Washington, it was a triumphal return. But the flinty, wrinkled President of Korea took no time to savor his personal triumphs; he had a somber message for the Congress and for the free world...
...surrender at Geneva had given everybody a respite, Western Europe settled back last week and began to savor the prospects of "peaceful coexistence." Not so the Communists. With Indo-China subdued and broken, the Communists had their next victim clearly in their sights, and last week they proclaimed it: Thailand...