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...tearfully that there was no need for a grand jury investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service was fine." But in the welter of scandal that surrounded him, there was reason to wonder whether Dilworth could survive politically. As a reformer at the head of a sullied reform administration, he may have to stifle his ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania next year and settle for private life in Philadelphia's swank...
Venice was also host last week to the world's most avant-garde explosion of pure sound-the first International Congress of Experimental Music. At daylong sessions, the audience settled down amid a welter of wires, loudspeakers and amplifiers to listen to the booms, moans, zips and roars that to some ears constitute the musical language of the future...
Traffic Jam. All these cars will descend on a market in which there is such a traffic jam of nameplates and models that many a customer is already confused enough. The customer now has 17 standard-sized cars to pick from, most of them with such a welter of models, motors, options and accessories that it is possible to buy a Chevrolet in more than 100,000 different combinations. And compacts are available in 89 models produced under eleven nameplates. Only the small foreign car has not been burgeoning; since the U.S. compacts were introduced, sales of foreign cars have...
Common Ground. With the news of Lumumba's death, and in the thunder of Moscow's political drums, hopes of agreement suddenly faded in a welter of confusion. But it soon became clear that although several African nations (Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R., Mali, Morocco) quickly joined the Russians in recognizing Gizenga's "government," that was where Moscow's success stopped. Mali and Guinea spoke up halfheartedly for Hammarskjold's resignation (but not his ouster); most shared the view of one Asian who admitted, "We're all at fault for not giving Hammarskjold a stronger...
Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles...