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...keynote theme from Lincoln: "We must ask 'where we are and whither we are tending.'" Indeed, until Johnson actually began to speak, almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable page-by-page...
BRITTEN: CURLEW RIVER (London). On a sojourn to the Orient in 1956, the composer was delighted by Japanese No plays, and one of them, Sumidagawa, is the inspiration for this one-act opera. It tells of a madwoman searching for her son, and her encounter with a boatman who explains his tragic death and shows her where he is buried. Scored for five male soloists, a chorus of nine and an orchestra of seven, Curlew River is a fragile work indeed, more tone poem than opera. Yet in a sedate, masquelike way, it has considerable melodic charm...
...most ardent of all literature luggers is the Experience Maximizer, who seeks to extract every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing...
...Some centuries ago a Scandinavian explorer, Thun by name, de- voted himself of anthropological studies of North American Indian tribes. To facilitate accurate documentation, he would live as a member of each tribe for a period of months. After one such sojourn, Thun was deathly, violently ill to his stomach and went on to the next in horrendous fits vomiting and diarreah...
...Simbas' sojourn seemed about over, however, for El Mahdi has no sympathy for leftist causes, and he too was in Khartoum last week, busily hammering together the government that will take office when Khalifa's mandate expires next month. El Mahdi hopes to form a broad conservative coalition Cabinet as the first step in reunifying the Sudan. To end the Negro rebellion, he plans to offer the south "a large measure of local self-government," guarantee it at least three posts on the 15-member Cabinet, outlaw discrimination. He also intends to push for a constitution that would...