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...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
...Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen...
Where to Go? Speaking beautifully about modern art, Barr said that in the last dozen years "we have had a movement, abstract expressionism, which has enjoyed an international reputation and great success here. The vigor and quality of this movement is bound to generate a reaction-but where we are going to go, I am not willing to prophesy. What I see is a new concern with figure, and a movement toward a severe style." Last week, in sentences of 20th century hedging, Barr was busily trying to shake loose from the implications of his words...
...danger that the office will degenerate into a sinecure is real. These possibilities cannot be codified as a statement of exact duties, and the varying needs of the different Houses make the Fellow's role even vaguer. The success of the program will therefore depend entirely on the vigor and interest of the Master and Fellows in each House, their willingness to seek out ideas and to experiment. To help the Fellows establish a definition of the Office, they should be formed as a distinct body that would coordinate their activities and pass on ideas...
...strained tone of the pep rally numbers is no longer evident. The Glee Club sings this type of music with especial resonance and precision. The classical repertoire is, on the whole, very well performed under the sensitive guidance of Mr. Forbes, who coaxes both elegant gentleness and sturdy vigor from his forces...