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Provisional President Pierre-Louis' first act was to free Candidate Dejoie and the other political prisoners. It had been a classic Haitian coup de langue, wherein the tongue proves mightier than the sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Au Revoir, Magloire | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...allowed to look at the conductor. Instead they must set the pace of the music and provide cues for the conductor. The adherents of this method of presenting opera claim it is the only way to create a living performance. Other techniques, they assert, lead only to operatic concerts wherein the singers are puppets dressed in magnificent costumes and playing on elaborately decorated stages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problems of Producing an Opera | 11/7/1956 | See Source »

...system, which has treaty sanction. To shake and perhaps shatter that system or to seek gains from threatening to do so, is not a triumph, neither does it augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution (see box) and its implicit threat of an Arab withholding of oil, "the sinew of material civilization without which machines would cease to function." To guard against such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: The Principles of 1888 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Soviet Parliament or the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. goes into session in Moscow tomorrow. The Deputies and the Soviet people at large note that the present session will reflect the changed atmosphere in the country wherein the harmful results of un-Soviet personality cult that cropped up in the last years of Stalin's life are being successfully eradicated. The Communist Party and the Soviet government have already done a great deal to develop genuine people's democracy in this country to the fullest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Un-Soviet Activities | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...free society wherein "men are not called upon to pay for their convictions . . . with the price of their lives," here is a haunting testament from those who paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty-Seven Martyrs | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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