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...safely evacuated. Loan's deputy, however, died in action, as did the commander of Tan Son Nhut Airbase. But because of the remarkably swift reaction of the city's 50,000 government defenders. Saigon's civilian dead numbered only a few hundred, less than one-twentieth of those at Tet. And by week's end an estimated 2,500 Communists had died in their attempt to breach the capital's defenses...
...second half of the program was gratifying for optimists who stayed through intermission. They heard a spicy dialogue between two great composers of the twentieth century. Le Tombeau de Couperin is Ravel's impression of the traditional dance suite, and it is neatly shaped to an ideal of grace and delicacy. Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, is perhaps a suitable answer to the Ravel, built, as it is, on the idea of the anti-dance dance. It has been made into a ballet despite the fact that its tantalizing rhythms and harmonies are meant to make the listener...
...there are those who will contend that Lautrec built solidly and indispensably on every aspect of Degas' production. Far more exciting, I feel, is the way in which his own indefatigable efforts lightened the historical burden for the next great inheritor, Henri Matisse, and facilitated the transition into the twentieth century. This was my personal discovery in the show, the piece of puzzle that so happily fell into place for me. Just as Degas was the disciple of Ingres, so Matisse, I believe, was the descendant of Degas in the classical French tradition. In, for example, the brothel scenes (Catalog...
Perhaps this is because the contradiction of Dionisio Ridruejo's life are the contradictions of twentieth century Spain. And if Dionisio Ridruejo is not yet Spain, there is hope that Spain may come to be Dionisio Ridruejo, and in so doing resolve its own contradictions much as he has resolved his. Dionisio Ridruejo is today, in his own words, "a free...
...reveals the modernity of his thinking. He sees nationalism in French Canada as having replaced the Church as the force of social counter-revolution. Several years ago he described the Quebec separatist movement as "the work of a powerless petit-bourgeois minority afraid to be left behind by the twentieth century revolution," and it is clear that he has now extended the analysis to include nationalists such as Mr. Johnson...