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...although occasionally rough, at its best it was rich and exciting. The symphony is an outstanding American work. The three movements follow the story of Joan of Arc as Maid, Warrior, and Saint. The dramatic intent of the music is emphasized by an instrumentation including bass drum, kettle drums, snare drum, cymbals, and bells. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave it a reading that clearly showed the group's improvement. We can thank Attilio Poto for the new vitality in the orchestra...
...light of such tactics, how is it possible for non-Communist countries to regard coexistence as a possibility, still less a reality? How can we regard coexistence as anything but a snare and a delusion until such time as the Cominform is dissolved? Here again our friends of the Communist camp have a ready answer. They say it is Russia that controls the Cominform, and what can China do about it? This argument leaves room for doubt as to whether there is perhaps a division of labor between the two great Communist powers, and that the role of China might...
While the snare drums sizzled and the crowd gasped, two girls in tights stood on eight-foot pedestals a stage width apart, one with an end of a wire about her neck, the second holding the other end with her teeth. A man mounted the slack wire, stretched himself out flat-backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind...
...such, "peaceful coexistence" is a snare that impresses only the impressionable. The Russians still have the largest army in the world, and their Chinese allies have vowed to build the second largest. By ideology, the Communists are committed to the defeat of the West; they are dedicated men, and they have the H-bomb. On fundamentals they have not retreated one jot-on Germany, on Austria, on the satellites and the slave labor camps. Communist papers still spread hate of the U.S. while their diplomats talk placatingly...
Pitfalls as well as pleasures will on-snare the unwary Cantabrigians when they invade Princeton this weekend...