Word: schumann
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Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson is one of these. Prominent British Conservative Enoch Powell is another. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann is still another...
...cher ami, at last you are here," said French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann as he spotted his British counterpart, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Luxembourg's glass-sheathed Centre Européen. "I'm glad to see you!" Did Schumann's government share that feeling? That was the critical question last week as the foreign ministers of Europe's six Common Market nations greeted the delegates from the four hopeful applicants-Ireland, Norway and Denmark as well as Britain...
...question of communication with the dead, Rosemary is clearly a musical mystery. There is the music itself, a great deal of it, including, on the new record alone, eight works that she claims are by Liszt, three by Chopin and one each by Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Brahms, Grieg and Schumann. The pieces all are characteristic of their alleged composers. Some of them are good enough to have been written by a Liszt or a Beethoven in a nodding moment, though they also suggest the possibility of highly skilled parody. But Rosemary does not seem to be composing the music herself...
Record collectors have long been accustomed to a one-sided search for one particular piece in a maze of two-faced records. Is that Mozart's 40th on the flip side of Haydn's 88th? Is Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata on the other side of the Schumann Piano Concerto? Now this petty but annoying problem is all but solved. More and more companies are offering omnibus collections of great composers in one volume, uniformly boxed and carefully indexed...
...seizing the initiative with Libya, Pompidou stirred controversy not only abroad but also within his own government. He ignored the recommendation of his Foreign Minister, Maurice Schumann, who advised selling the Libyans a much smaller number of Mirages, and accepted instead the advice of Defense Minister Michel Debre, who wanted to fulfill their request for all 108 jets. Since Debre is generally regarded as the Cabinet member most loyal to the departed Charles de Gaulle and to his policies, Pompidou's decision grated on those ministers who are anxious for France to abandon the route charted by De Gaulle...