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...first program, Princeton's first moment of glory came in the Prisoners' chorus from Fidelio, "O welche Lust!" From the quiet, weirdly mobile introduction of the piano, the chorus swelled to the turbulent, if slightly breathy, prisoners' cries. In the Yowes," a Scottish folk song arranged by R. Vaughan Williams, the opening solo of baritone William Parker reduced to complete silence the usual rattlings and coughings of a Sanders audience. The chorus, which by then had warmed up and had warmed its audience to it, continued the delicate clarity with which Paker had begun; conductor Walter Noliner made the song...
...efficacy of principle is brought into question by many less amicable than the old Scottish preacher whose practice was to extricate himself from treacherous discussion with his parishioners with the statement: "It may not be right, and it may not be just, but it is the will of God." If only the will of God could be so certainly known...
Harold the 14th. At week's end Douglas-Home took off for the solidly Tory constituency in Scotland. Though he faces five opponents, he is certain of victory both as a Tory and a bra' bonny Scottish laird. The new Prime Minister also displayed a considerable knack for public relations, allowing his wife to tell women reporters all about his habits, including the way he takes his porridge-sitting down and with lots of sugar, unlike the traditional Scotsman, who eats it standing up and with salt. As for criticism of his "remoteness" from life, the millionaire Prime...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...through Van Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...