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...STEPAN RAZIN and SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Melodiya-Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...train compartments. "People in dirty work clothes should not get on public transport, because they will soil other people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman, kiss her hand and address her as "Madame" rather than call her comrade and raise a clenched fist in a party...
...nowadays think it is too pretentious. Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble. Nor do members wear opera capes; too many wise guys shout "Batman!" or "Phantom of the Opera...
...Charlotte, N.C., to address a Chamber of Commerce dinner, Romney took on the Southerners in their own territory. "As far as I am concerned," he said, "states have no rights. Only people have rights. I know that some of those who shout the loudest about states' rights are laggards in state responsibility. Obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly." Then he flew to New York, where he held a full-blown, big-league press conference during which he knocked the Johnson Administration's economic policy ("We should have had a tax increase a year...
...angel of the Lord caused his countenance to shine upon Jonathan, "For thou to lose were like unto passing a needle through the eye of a camel, possible but extremely difficult." Jonathan was mightily glad at this and raised a joyous shout unto the Lord...