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Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
...first gale blew up when Socialists suddenly bucked at the idea of firing 150,000 surplus government workers-though Socialists in the Schuman cabinet were committed to the economy. The Premier demanded a vote of confidence and got it, 402-183 (his ninth in nearly seven months). Only the Communists voted against him. The size of his majority seemed almost a promise of sunny weather...
...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...
...Robert Schuman, his storms proved more than figurative. On one of his solitary walks among the Left Bank bookstalls he was caught in a cloudburst, returned home drenched. His secretary scolded him. Said Schuman: "I suppose I have too much confidence." After a pause he added: "In a manner of speaking, of course...