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...that "passions have calmed down," wrote Basketball Expert Viktor Grigoriev, "it is time to make a sober analysis." The analysis: Spandarian had been guilty of deceit in reporting that U.S. and Soviet teams had competed as equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing...
...soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded under Willem Mengelberg. Some critics call him too nuchter (sober), but, says Haitink, "after my first wild years, I am just trying to get a balance between my heart and my head...
...Past. Finally he took out a piece of paper, straightened his tie, and in more sober tones read: "We should like that with the departure of the old year, of the old President, our bad relations with the United States should also depart. During the election campaign, Mr. Kennedy said that had he been President he would have voiced regret to the Soviet government with regard to the U-2 flight. In view of all this, we obviously should not insist on discussing the question in the United Nations Assembly, so as not to let the bad past interfere with...
...people of the Pardailhan kibbutz are celebrating New Year's this week, though the wind howls cold in their unheated rooms and the food in the larder is plain. The week before, there had been a Christmas tree for the children and toys around it, and some sober merrymaking. In fact, there was more Christmas at Pardailhan than in all the other kibbutzim in the world combined. Pardailhan is not in Israel but in Southern France, and its members are not Jews...
Classic, Medieval. On the whole, the translation is excellent (see box). In fact, it is superior to the English original in at least one respect: Milne's occasionally cloying cuteness cannot be rendered in the sober Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster...