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BEETHOVEN: DIABELLI VARIATIONS (RCA Victor). Thirty-three variations on a waltz by the Austrian composer Anton Diabelli pose a formidable test for the virtuoso talents of 32-year-old John Browning. Much talked about but seldom performed, they strain the pianist's technical mastery and his emotional ambience. Browning, who is one of the best of the "percussive" school, passes the technical trials splendidly, but in the melancholy later variations, when he should be exploring Beethoven's darker nature, he appears to be marking time before the florid finale...
...absence from the House (which delayed action on the bill for two weeks) resulted from a monumental drinking binge. Rivers, who has been on the wagon for years, mentioned bursitis, not booze, as the cause of his hospitalization, and his colleagues responded with a torrent of eulogy seldom accorded a living member...
...quite an accomplishment for a man of 40 in a nation that seldom considers a man fit for high public office until he is well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...
...structures of Europe are rapidly changing, and so are the dogmas of decades past. The cold opposing currents are growing warmer and the hard opposing truths growing softer. As the 7,601st day passed into the 7,602nd, World War III did not seem in the offing. It had seldom, in fact, seemed farther away...
...each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species frequently fight to a fatal finish; members of the same species seldom go so far. At the last minute, the animal getting the worst of it makes a gesture of submission and the victor, no matter how furious his rage, is compelled by the gesture to spare the victim's life...