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...hours, the Amman radio had readied the nation for "an announcement of happy and private news." But when Jordan's King Hussein took the microphone, his tone was suppliant and defensive. "I have all my life, my brethren, hidden my worries, my problems and cares from you," he said, "wearing a smile on my face which never knew its way into my heart." The truth was far different. "I know loneliness eating my days and nights. I feel my spirit tearing and burning in a fire of gloomy loneliness and pitiful isolation. I needed affection." Then the 25-year...
...within two days Macmillan's carefully wrought compromise shattered on the intransigent arrogance of Eric Louw. Calling a press conference (for white reporters only), Louw aggressively announced, "I have come to London neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall...
With that, Meany broke up the meeting. Said he to reporters after the trembling suppliant had gone: "It is evident that the I.L.A. has done nothing to rectify the conditions for which it was expelled." Would he refer the I.L.A. application to his executive board? No, snapped Meany. "It would be an insult to their intelligence. The matter is closed...
Dallapiccola: Canti di Prigionia (St. Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Igor Markevich; Angel). Italy's most important composer, Luigi Dallapiccola, admires both Schoenberg's twelve-tone system and Palestrina's pure, polished polyphony, and these long, suppliant "songs of prison" combine some interesting aspects of both...
From the moment his plane touched down at Nice airport last week, Morocco's ex-Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef made clear he was not returning as a suppliant, grateful to be allowed to return from remote Madagascar to a more congenial clime. Two hundred Moroccans stood in the drizzling rain to cheer him as he descended, svelte in grey djellabah and white pointed slippers, and followed by his two sons, four daughters, two wives and 19 veiled concubines. The Foreign Ministry had ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly...