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...could accuse Henry Kissinger of lacking sobriety. In his most recent book, The Necessity For Choice, he dares to dwell at length on possibilities the mere mention of which sends otherwise calm men into intellectual St. Vitus Dance. Kissinger's critics err grievously when they accuse him of being war-happy; on the contrary, he sometimes seems to be infected, in a unique way, with the same thermonuclear paranoia that vitiates the thinking of his opponents. For example, he provides a precise, methodical critique of summit conferences as substitute for well- formulated policies, but he might well jeoparadize his position...
...month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
...midst of the pageant Yankee Prince Teddy presided over all. indestructible, a mixture, according to one visiting British statesman, "of St. Vitus and St. Paul ... a great wonder of nature." T.R.'s own overall judgment of his Administration: 1) ''The most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before the law"; 2) "It was clear to all ... that the labor problem in the country had entered upon a new phase"; 3) "We were at absolute peace, and there was no nation from whom we had anything to fear." The loyal opposition's point...
...after Dwight Eisenhower named Maxwell Gluck to be his ambassador to real-life Ceylon, Gluck's guileless honesty appeared to be, instead of a unique advantage, a handicap on the order of kleptomania or St. Vitus' dance. He embarrassed the Administration, set off horselaughs and snorts of indignation in the U.S. press, sorely annoyed the Ceylonese, and indelibly marked himself as durable headline material. What was Gluck's offense? He admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in secret session, that he could not pronounce the name of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal...
...great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending a Communist-front cultural conference in Manhattan...