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...constitutional powers of advice and consent on treaties and the appointment of ambassadors. Senate sentiment about present U.S. policy toward Viet Nam therefore becomes of vital concern. How do the members of the Senate feel about Viet Nam? Last week TIME'S congressional correspondents interviewed almost a score of the Senate's members-a sampling ranging across regional, party and ideological lines. Among those who were not interviewed were Senators whose views have long been on the record-such as Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, who thinks the U.S. has no business in Viet Nam (said Morse...
Senate confirmation hearings ordinarily are fairly perfunctory. Not so last week when Abe Fortas, the President's first Supreme Court appointee, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a two-hour hearing, he answered questions on a score of subjects, replied to some half-baked accusations...
...initial aim of summer cramming for the neophyte, as Author Richard Armour cautions, should be to "learn something-and be able to hold forth at the dinner table about it." Armour adds sagely: "If you want to score points, you've got to get the conversation around to something you've read, and prove you're up on the subject." No one scores points by babbling about a novel that everyone else has forgotten for two years. For that matter, it is safe to skip all Major Novelists, since everyone else is presumed to have read them...
...production's one failing is so glaringly obvious that one wonders how it was possible. Having put all this effort into directing the play, having commissioned Joseph Raposo to do a new musical score, why would Robert Chapman select his cast without any apparent regard for their singing ability? "It's not just a question of having no excellent voices in the company; most of the voices are not passable, the lyrics rarely intelligible. One song is bad enough that the singing must have been intentionally off-key; this is wrong--it makes it impossible to understand the lyrics...
Milhaud conducted sitting down, but with burly authority. The score opened with a fast descending scale on the strings joined by the brassy blare of trumpets. Four stark downbeats on the kettle drums were omens of doom. Cracking fortissimos rapidly fading to a whispered diminuendo, an accumulation of dissonant agonized tones, a carefree pastoral legato phrase, and a lamenting melody on a reedy oboe vividly characterized the fateful day in Dallas and the President's oblivious ride to his death...