Word: vanguarde
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...second day of debate, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the man who sent the vanguard of the British Commonwealth Division to Korea in 1950, quietly announced that he had a few words to say about the U.S. Obviously he could not let Churchill monopolize so popular a cause. "I hope they will cause no offense," he said. "I merely want to state some facts." Attlee, who once taught history and law at London University, can state facts in the manner of Mr. Squeers informing one of Nicholas Nickleby's pupils that a thrashing will hurt you more than...
...weather is holding, and General Raoul Salan has airlifted a formidable last-minute defense force into Luang Prabang. While they dig in for a long siege, patrols fend off the Communist vanguard...
Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, conducted by Vassily Nebolsin; Vanguard, 3 LPs). For opera lovers looking for a new but basically old-fashioned work. The plot, derived from Gogol stories, is full of romantic love and farcical confusion, but has a happy ending...
Prokofiev: Oratorio, Op. 124 (Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the ten movements, provided by scenes from World War II (climax: Stalingrad) and a warmhearted, slightly Wagneresque lullaby...
Schubert-Weingartner: Symphony in E (Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Franz Litschauer; Vanguard). One of the composer's three uncompleted symphonies. This one was left fully sketched but not orchestrated, is called No. 7 by some reliable musicologists. It has a beautiful slow movement; all of it is good Schubert...