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Most thoughtful Bostonians yearn for a topnotch outside educator to come in and start rebuilding Athens. But no outsider has been brought in since 1912, and most candidates would sniff at Boston's salary ($26,000). Odds are that an inside war horse will get the job and try to swallow Committeeman Lee's boast that "we've got one hell of a school system"-a statement that many critics dryly regard as right on the button...
...With so many conflicting reports on Red China, it was a real pleasure to read your clear, concise cover story in the Sept. 13 issue. Even after many years of topnotch accounts of world events, I am still amazed at your thoroughness in reporting...
...Erich Leinsdorf to the contrary notwithstanding [Aug. 23], we have more first-class Wagnerian singers now than we had in the Melchior-Flagstad era. In the last few years the Metropolitan Opera has offered us such topnotch artists as Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Gladys Kuchta, Inge Bjoner, Regine Crespin and Anita Valkki, sopranos; Jon Vickers, Sandor Konya and Jess Thomas, tenors; Jean Madeira, Nell Rankin and Irene Dalis, mezzos; George London, Hermann Prey, Walter Cassel and Eberhardt Wachter, baritones; and Jerome Hines, Giorgio Tozzi and William Wilderman, bassos...
...Characters in Search of an Author is quite possibly the best thought-out and most excitingly executed revival of the Pirandello classic ever to be seen in the U.S. Under William Ball's exceptional direction, a topnotch cast responds seis-mographically to the dramatic shifts between illusion and reality...
...highly visible was the new 21-man Cabinet, and most Western observers liked what they saw. Said one: "In general, they're a topnotch bunch of responsible, eager, exceptionally well-educated people." Many of the ministers have lived or have been educated in the West, ranging from Foreign Minister Shabib, who graduated from London University and is married to an Englishwoman, to Finance Minister Salih Kubba, who attended the University of California and has an international reputation as an economist. Seven of the new Cabinet ministers were in Kassem's concentration camp at Rashid military base until...