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...Rokossovsky. A delegation of the Soviet Party Presidium came flying into Warsaw and Khrushchev stepped out, arms flailing, shouting insults at the Poles. Gomulka was calm. When Khrushchev asked, "Who is that?" Gomulka replied, "It is I, Gomulka, the man you sent to jail." The Russians' coup de théâtre flopped because one of Gomulka's supporters had taken the precaution of arming the workers of the Zeran works, and another, the new secret police boss, had put a discreet cordon of tanks around the parliament house and changed the guard at Radio Warsaw. After listening...
...washing machine, the average Hungarian has been doing things that are beyond my imagination. The comparison haunts me I can't help feeling that we've let the human race down a little, and yet, what could we have done? The tragedy and anguish of th Hungarian voices on the radio was unforgettable; t he text should be hung on ever American mirror, so we could read...
...will compose and conduct two pieces for Stuttgart's festival of popular music, has agreed to compose and arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular...
...long-nosed, sad-eyed Manolete performs the weaving dance of death with the black bull in a manner as purely simple and beautiful as he himself was homely, gives the aspiring aficionado a hint of the poetry of blood that has fascinated writer-intellectuals from Théophile Gautier to Hemingway...
Last week, it was the French Canadians' turn to take top billing. Twelve players from Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde turned in crackling, rapid-fire performances of three Molière one-act plays. Most of their audience was English-speaking, but the French actors' skilled miming as they romped through the Molière farces got the meaning across. The addition of the French plays and French style to the Stratford program was hailed not only as a theatrical coup, but also as a rare illustration of Canada's dual culture...