Word: sta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French colony. She married a former French army officer, and when he wandered off to Guinea on a gold mining job, Madame Blouin went along, and became so enthusiastic about Sékou Touré that she became a close adviser to him, and a kind of Madame de Staël of his revolutionary movement. In time, she shifted her affections to Gizenga and the cause of Congo freedom. She gave it her all. In expensive Paris frocks she campaigned on a leftwing, anti-West platform to help her boy Gizenga. "I am not a Communist," she insists stoutly...
...extended the orchestra's repertory and season, but now feels that he can push the orchestra no further. Says Dorati blandly: "An artist of my caliber-and I am one of the best-must always be building." Replacing Dorati in Minneapolis is Polish Conductor-Composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (pronounced Sta-nis-waff Skro-vah-cheff-ski), whose name is giving his new home town so much trouble that even the press release announcing his appointment misspelled it. A onetime student of France's famed Nadia Boulanger, Conductor Skrowaczewski, 36, became prominent after the war as a vigorous champion...