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...final movement, a race of violins and piano goes so fast that a second-chair man complained during rehearsals that it could not be played at all. "Wait till you get excited." Bernstein said, and in last week's performances, the movement came off beautifully...
Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon's son Orestes is spirited to safety by his tutor, but the dead king's daughter Electra is held in duress till she comes of age, and then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper...
...meet, the country needs massive help from outside-and of course expects to get it from the U.S. Fortnight ago, as collateral for emergency loans, Brazil shipped its last $80 million worth of gold to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. International oil suppliers have agreed to wait till next year to be paid for this year's imports. Such measures should enable Brazil to live on a hand-to-mouth basis until early 1963. After that, it presumably depends on another bailout by the U.S. Last week President Kennedy made it clear that U.S. help depends...
...Jimmy Durante has shriveled away till he looks like a mere appendage of that incomparable proboscis, long may it wave. But age cannot wither nor custom stale his infinite sameness. In 1962 he is essentially what he was in 1950, when he made his last movie. He is Jimmy, a quite ordinary little fellow who looks slightly confused and absurdly belligerent, as though in total darkness he had stepped on the teeth of a rake, and the handle had popped up and hit him in the nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering...
...China is wonderful, wait till you meet Mao. He is revered in Snow's China like no one since Confucius. He speaks in witty epigrams, travels humbly among the people, even wears old cotton socks that droop charmingly around his ankles. Mao's dearest wish, Snow reports, is to visit the U.S., if only to swim the Potomac. And though Snow argues that the U.S. ought to quit its "aggressive outposts" like Formosa, Japan, South Viet Nam and South Korea, he sees the rude failure to invite Mao over for a visit as the "great error...