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Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited four consuls, two chargés d'affaires and three home-office functionaries as Reds. The chief coddler of the Communists, Lacerda said, is Career Diplomat Orlando Leite Ribeiro, "a personal friend of Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position...
...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...
When asked which of his compositions he thinks will probably still be current a hundred years from now, he names Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Soldier's Tale (1918) and Apollo Musagètes (1928). But he believes that his later works will also come into popularity. Early this year, after Manhattan concertgoers heard a kind of spontaneous retrospective show of the great composer's music (16 compositions in eleven concerts), few doubted him. Says Stravinsky: "I am not a kidder. I am not a tricky man. The music is there...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
When Mattos Rodríguez died last week in Montevideo, at 51, Buenos Aires newspapers barely mentioned it, and the deadpanned dancers in the big, middle-class dance halls, in the low dives and tony boîtes did not even know that La Cumparsita's composer was dead. But their feet still followed his rhythms and their silent lips mouthed the lines...