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Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Groused Pound, who is confined to St. Elizabeths' grounds on a much-argued diagnosis of legal insanity, faces trial on 19 counts of treason (he broadcast eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo...
Usually the tempo of violence increases just before a U.N. session, as the Algeri ans try to show how powerful they still are and the French try to show how effectively they are ''pacifying" the rebels. In the Massif of Bou Zegza, 40 miles southeast of Algiers, last week French troops saw a body of men in French uniforms and steel helmets approaching. As they drew near, the rebels in French clothing opened up with machine guns and grenades, killing 21 French, wounding 20 others. Angrily the French trotted up artillery, aircraft and no less than five generals...
...death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered and revived it 75 years later. By that time the thread of succession was broken (Bach, in the custom of his time, rarely wrote into his scores any indications of tempo or dynamics). But Cantor Thomas believes that performance is more important than tradition. "Musicologists are constantly making new discoveries," he says. "We can only get a just interpretation by assimilating all this material-and even then, we can only hope...
...orchestral prelude left little doubt that this Tristan was in expert hands. Dressed in tuxedo trousers and open-throated shirt, Conductor Sawallisch led his orchestra through a performance marked by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that...
...boom grew voracious. Real estate was traded over and over in a day; men sold their places in the restive land-office queues, joined the end of the line to begin buying again. Mountaintop lots made paper millionaires out of penniless speculators. Before Harrison Otis could slow the tempo, it was too late: in 1888 the boom cracked open like an avalanche. Crowds by the thousands streamed for the trains, and the Times recorded the news of suicides and scandals...