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...Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, and Liam), Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger (on banjo), Bruce Langhorne (on guitar), and what is described as "a 200-voice singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change from the generally sullen mien of the folksinger. Songs include the famous "Tim Finnegan's Wake" ("a song of death...a song of resurrection"), "Brennan On the Moor," and (Orangemen take note) "The Old Orange Flute." I cannot recommend...
...brief article. But one is dismayed to see him supply the attacker with ammunition. At one point, for example, he accuses the proponents of deterrence with "assuming that command decisions will always be made rationally" and ignoring such "long-term weaknesses" as "accident," "miscalculation," "hysteria," and "the N-th country problem...
...Th question of air access to Berlin, Chamberlain asserted, is one of the major dilemmas the West must face. "Any admission that Russia has the right to control air traffic," he said, "will be a prelude to disaster...
...desire not to flood the market, is the reason for its being kept so long from view. The four paintings that TIME reproduces (see color) catch a variety of styles and colors-plus this personal note. Picasso has seldom been more tender than in his first portrait of Marie-Thėrėse Walter, and rarely has he endowed a figure with such regality as in the second portrait of her. The Minotaur is all passion, sad and fierce at once, almost like the master himself, and in the portrait of the woman with the dramatic hat, all conventions...
Love-Smitten Minotaur. More portraits of Marie-Thėrėse follow before the dark features of Dora Maar, Picasso's next love, appear. There are some cityscapes, bright as a patchwork quilt, and later a series on one of Picasso's favorite themes, the Minotaur. This time, the artist was thinking of a legend in which three muses come upon the Minotaur dying on a beach. Two flee at the sight of his ugliness, but one stays to nurse him back to health. "Forever thereafter, while she floated offshore, he spent his days sitting where...