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...Marshall Plan. The Alliance for Progress, the Kennedy phrase that now became a mutual declaration of 20 nations, is something less than a Marshall Plan in Latin tempo. It is left up to the Latin American nations, one by one, to produce definite reforms. The U.S. feels itself still too resented in Latin America to try to dictate solutions, and can only hope that the alliance grows its own responsibility...
...teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists of this mad litany, set to a foxtrot tempo...
Stepping up the tempo of his Administration's action on the Berlin crisis, President Kennedy last week asked the Congress and the nation to strengthen, beyond doubt, the already powerful U.S. military machine. At the same time, Administration strategists sought to seize the diplomatic initiative, in an all-out effort to preserve-beyond doubt-the freedom of the non-Communist world...
...cheering opening night crowd gave Events twelve curtain calls, and the critics were dazzled. "Robbins' latest ballet," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is the really great masterpiece of the dance theater in the second half of the 20th century." Masterpiece or not, it is a departure-"not like my other work," said Robbins, 42. "Otherwise I wouldn't want...
...looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always subject to change. Sometimes Jackson opens with eloquent slowness, then double-times the theme with marvelous results. Or he may start with a rocking jazz attack and shift to concert-style piano...