Word: tre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all, the conflict in Korea is one of the U.N. against Communist aggressors, no matter how large a part tRe U.S. plays in the actual fighting. Unless and until the General Assembly can be persuaded to sanction the military measures advocated by MacArthur, any attempt on our part to carry them out takes the chance of converting the war into one of the U.S. against North Korea and China ... It is by no means established that Russia would be as cautious in opposing the U.S. as she has been in opposing the U.N. in Korea...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
Died. Pierre Roy, 70, whose gaily colored, meticulous paintings of unfamiliarly arranged familiar objects,won him recognition as a petit maìtre (Little Master) of modern art; in Milan, Italy...
Festooned with colored lights and filled with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...
Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...