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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has his own ideas about the U.S. proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians...
...hard to tell whether the utter tedium of George Nugent's String Quartet, Gerald Bennett's Three Songs, and James Webster's String Quartet should be blamed on the performers or the composers. In all three works, it is clear that the composers have approached the common idiom of twentieth century music--and beneath a few musical pinnacles, there really is one--much as a snake eats a rat: by swallowing it whole and unchewed. Giving the details of the ingestion would be too painful here. Three Psalm Fragments, by Thomas Benjamin, received a spirited performance by a selected chorus...
...voluntarily robbed a human life of the compulsion whereby it lives, had condemned myself to an existence based entirely on compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death." Because Tamura shows no mercy to himself, he can show none to others. But at the point of utter degradation, Tamura at last finds his will. While other surviving Japanese turn to cannibalism, Tamura balks and takes a bitter pride in refusing the flesh of another human. At long last, he is able to utter the words that come so easily to people in a free world...
...last three years, glossolalia has also been tried out by a number of Lutheran and Episcopal churches in the Middle and Far West. Now 20 students in the secular, skeptical confines of Yale University report that they can pray in the spontaneous outpouring of syllables that sounds like utter babble to most listeners, but has a special meaning to the "gifted...
...granted," Mrs. Ambrie explains. Her husband accepts this, saying "I suppose the same way people took for granted that Jack Hill (the deceased) was a friend of mine." But O'Hara leaves it to the couple's daughter, who had had an affair with the deceased, to utter the most depressing line of all: "Maybe now I can marry Joe and settle down in (suburban) Greenport and be what I always wanted...