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...Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar referred to, by initials or nicknames, in his score: among them, the brusque, exuberant Troyte (Anthony...
Busy Fighters. There was no telling how long it would be before the wind blew in a new regime. British High Commissioner Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, after a quick trip to London for consultations, announced over Aden radio: "It is urgently necessary that a new government should take over. I recognize the nationalist forces as representatives of the people and am ready to enter into discussions immediately with them." The nationalist forces were too busy fighting each other to stop to talk to Sir Humphrey...
...respectively natives. Such agitators had long been at work in the villages and towns of England, but they now came bearing, not general exhortations, but a particular command from the 'Great Society,' as they called the union of the lower classes which they were attempting to form." G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1368-1520, page...
...Roberts conducted dedication services at the first American Protestant church ever organized in Moscow: one room of his new apartment, near Moscow University and the Red Chinese embassy. About 75 people crowded into "Christ Church" for the ceremony, and U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and Britain's Sir Humphrey Trevelyan read Scripture lessons...
Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...