Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second spontaneous flare-up of church-state conflict in five weeks (TIME, May9)-was a grave embarrassment. Each is aware that ultimately Christ or the Commissar must back down in Poland, but each also dreads anything that might spark a nationwide uprising and thereby provoke the Soviets to give Warsaw the Budapest treatment. But in troubled Poland, the hands of both leaders are increasingly being forced...
...Warsaw is drab and still rubble-strewn, but memorable. The ancient capital of Cracow retains its medieval splendor. So does Prague, with its beautiful setting; on the Moldau, hotels are good (single: $11.75 per day with meals). Bureaucracy controls: the hotel costs must be paid before the tourist can use his visa. A four-day tour of Bohemian spas and castles costs $38.20 with meals...
...anniversary of Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...
...June 22). Now in its sixth year, it is Western Europe's best showcase for little-known Communist talent. Among this year's visitors: the 250-member Belgrade Opera (in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Kho-vantchina, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin), the Budapest Ballet, the Warsaw Symphony...
...lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high as 28 for one letter, and following two thin...