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...Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 6 LPs, $23.98). Now 80 and living in Switzerland, Szigeti at his peak was that rare performer fully entitled to be called both a musicians' musician and a violinists' violinist. With Szigeti, the usual egoistic trappings of the virtuoso life took second place to a kind of earthy piety based on prodigious musical insight and a troth-like pledge between him and the composer. Here are some of his finest concerto recordings-notably the Brahms with Hamilton Harty (1928), the Beethoven with Bruno Walter (1932), the Prokofiev First, Mozart Fourth and the Mendelssohn with...
...likable editor in a New York publishing house: his father's death, marriage to a mean-spirited girl whom he strangles in his sleep, incarceration, finally death in a hotel fire. But the presiding genius of the book is one Baron R, a famous novelist who lives in Switzerland but is published by Hugh's American firm. In fact, it is broadly hinted that Hugh may exist only as a creature...
...OTHER NEUTRALS-including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria-are publicly enthusiastic about détente, but in private they are extremely cautious. They realize that their neutrality would be endangered in a Europe that did not have U.S. power to offset Soviet military strength. "Do you know what MBFR stands for?" a Scandinavian diplomat asked TIME Correspondent David Tinnin in Helsinki last week. Before Tinnin could answer, the diplomat replied, "It means more benefits for the Russians...
...known as a bon vivant, chess player and bawdy raconteur. As busy as ever, Breuer is constantly on the go. One project is a recreational town of 48,000 units along the dune-dotted Aquitaine coast in southwestern France. Another is the Koerfer House in Switzerland that just won a top architectural award. Back in the U.S. is a new hydropower plant at Grand Coulee Dam that he describes as "Egyptian in its dimensions and cathedral in its feeling of emptiness, immensity and silence...
...film wanders aimlessly from the hills of Wales, to the streets of Paris, to the lakes of Switzerland, but it really goes nowhere at all. It is not that one would want powerful intellection or epic scope or even moral paulon from Truffaut. One would merely like something more substantial than tender-minded emotionalism. Truffaut is too young to be wistful and too old to whine...