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...regimental ball, which seems to be the briskest, and perhaps the most arduous, campaign that this outfit was ever engaged in, Millington makes an unsuccessful pass at Mrs. Marjorie Hasseltine (Elizabeth Shepherd), who has a sub rosa reputation for being a courtesan among young subalterns. She charges him with attacking her, and a regimental court-martial is convened...
...Introduction" fades into "The Shepherd," a devastatingly simple lyric poem, that like all of Blake's songs, is nevertheless rich in its suggestive power. Ginsberg's music is sweet and flowing but the song is almost spoiled by Peter Orlovsky's bleating voice. Ginsberg solos on "The Echoing Green" and the results here are much better. On the next cut, "The Lamb," Ginsberg and Orlovsky join voices again, and turn what is probably Blake's most popular poem into a tripped-out nursery song. This song expresses the essence of Blake's vision of innocence. Man is Child gently watched...
...songs are so somber. Many poke good-humored fun at life's petty annoyances-some universal, some strictly Soviet. In a young husband's complaint, Nozhkin sings in an easy, confidential tone of how he and his wife bought a summer dacha and an expensive German shepherd to guard it: "The dog doesn't sleep because it's guarding the dacha, and I don't sleep because I'm guarding the dog." "I work like a horse and get paid like a donkey," he adds. "All day long I run from the nursery...
...Vatican scolded the press for sensationalism, and indeed the situation was not as serious as claimed. But at the very least, reported TIME Correspondents James Shepherd from New Delhi and Wilton Wynn from Rome, church controls over the importation of Indian novices into Europe had been woefully inadequate...
Lucchesi's sculptures are as Italian as Verkade's are Dutch. He works up his figures with a quattrocento Florentine passion for detail, and flings off flying draperies with the airy exuberance of a Bernini. The son of a Tuscan shepherd too poor to send him to art school, he learned his first lessons from the monuments in cemeteries, later managed to study in Florence. There he met and married a Brooklyn girl; and when they came to America in 1957, he began to exhibit in his father-in-law's picture-frame shop in Greenwich Village...