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...only University organization that was praised at all by Root, "a radical conservative," is the Harvard Conservative League, formed by Quinlan J. Shea '56, but Root asserted that the organization was "infiltered" by the "collectivist left, a boring from within, a Trojan Horse technique, which helped to disrupt the Conservative League...
...retain control of the East Zone through rigged elections and unless the East Zone's economic and social structure is preserved in a reunited Germany. Although many Germans would be willing to deal for reunification on the basis of neutralization, few will accept a plan that would put a Trojan Horse of Communism in a unified Germany...
...port of Alexandria last week, at piers sealed off from prying eyes, Egyptian longshoremen carefully uncrated a Trojan horse. It came from Czechoslovakia, but bore Moscow's greeting card...
...Trojan horse was not immediately recognizable as such. It took the shape of four shiploads of Soviet-bloc arms, but the speed of its arrival bespoke a long preparation by the Russians; about 15 Communist technicians were said to be already on hand, and more were on the way. Alexandria's airport was closed to civil traffic, reportedly because some 50 MIG-15 jet fighters were being uncrated there. There was talk of six Soviet-made submarines for Egypt, plus plenty of Czech-made tanks and small arms, all at bargain prices...
Composer Walton built his score "word by word, bar by bar," and the structure came out sound as the Trojan Horse. The orchestra makes a luxurious sound, with plenty of pleasing details such as the soft zips on the xylophone that punctuate an Act II party scene. The vocal melody sometimes soars, e.g., the parting duet ("O gentle heart, would we again were drifting/ Far from this world of waking"), but is often pale and fragile as the illustrations in English children's books. Walton, after all, is neither Italian nor Russian, and no one need complain...