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...recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
...with most morality plays, this classic conflict between President and press was part illusion, an effect heightened by the black-and-white technique of the editorial cartoonists, who made the issue seem starker than it really was (see cuts). Some of the other protests had a ritual ring. "We have in the past few weeks,'' said U.S. Representative John E. Moss, chairman of the special House subcommittee on Government information, "experienced a degree of Government news management which is unique in peacetime, a disturbing period of unplanned and unprecedented news management." Moss's charge was not without...
From the LIFE Nature Library series (by mail order only; $3.95 a book): THE FOREST, by Peter Farb; THE SEA, by Leonard Engel; and THE DESERT, by A. Starker Leopold...
...Kennedy-Nixon conflicts on issues, none have been sharper or been laid up in starker relief than their disagreement on national prestige. In the TV debates, Nixon declared that the U.S.'s prestige was "at an alltime high." Kennedy declared that "we have not maintained our position and our prestige," charged that "State Department polls on our prestige and influence around the world have shown such a sharp drop that up till now the State Department has been unwilling to release them." Nixon, in turn, accused Kennedy of "running down America...
...heavily romantic Symphony in B minor by Borodin, whose musical expression is starker and more rough-hewn than Liszt's, but similar in its unrestrained and often pompous emotionality, was sympathetically interpreted by the orchestra. Borodin often employs thick brass and woodwind textures in his scores, and the playing of these sections was particularly good. The objectionable thing here is the music itself, specifically the first movement, which is little more than the reiteration, ad nauseam, of a single motive. The rest of the symphony, although often cumbersome and awkward, is better...