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...Peak. Last week, like a stormy throwback to another century. Maria Callas swept into New York. She arrived, as is proper for prima donnas, in triumph. Raised in Manhattan's upper west side, Maria Callas had left it as a fat, unhappy child of 14. She returned svelte, successful, the wife of an Italian millionaire, a diva more widely hated by her colleagues and more wildly acclaimed by her public than any other living singer. She returned to open the season next week in Bellini's Norma at the Metropolitan-which only eleven years ago just could...
...quality. The beautiful little Oregon hamlets with their graceful maples, vivid green lawns, handsome courthouses, the little kids crying or laughing unconcernedly as the candidate drones on, old men sitting on benches with expressionless faces, sucking on their pipes, housewives carrying their groceries-all of this is a mellow throwback, reminiscent as a Currier and Ives print, to the pre-electronic-age campaigns...
Graham, Niebuhr thinks, is a throwback to the theological past. "Graham still thinks within the framework of pietistic moralism. He thinks the problem of the atom bomb could be solved by converting the people to Christ, which means that he does not recognize the serious perplexities of guilt and responsibility, and of guilt associated with responsibility, which Christians must face...
...human situation between Earth and Heaven." In giving the symbols form, Barlach again turned his back on Paris, chose instead to model his peasants in terms of their own traditional wood-carved figures and the Gothic sculpture of his native town. The result, far from seeming a throwback to a bygone style, rapidly placed Barlach in the vanguard of German expressionists...
...Program: "My boys are in!" shouted a gleeful Poujade last week. He himself did not run for office. At his headquarters villa, he said that the first order of business should be the convocation of Etats Généraux, a throwback to the ancien regime before the French Revolution, when the clergy, the nobility and the lower classes were the three estates who met to advise the King. "They will be formed by delegates of different social classes ... I hope that the government itself will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will...