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...Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the Kirov company for ten years at the time of his defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world-and compare him favorably with Nijinsky. A gifted soloist, he is also known as a superbly good partner of the kind that 42-year-old Margot Fonteyn has too frequently lacked...
...world," Violinist Fritz Kreisler once explained, "is a great child and tires easily. You cannot make friends for long with all the world." But Violinist Kreisler must have had second thoughts. No musician of his time carried on a longer musical friendship with the world-and none left behind a less jaded audience when he finally withdrew from the concert stage. Kreisler was not only the greatest violinist of his generation, but also the last of a once common breed: his death last week, of a heart attack, just four days before his 87th birthday, marked...
...famed for both his astonishing musical memory and his aversion to practice: sometimes he would go a whole summer without touching the violin on the theory that "if I played too frequently, I should rub the bloom off the musical imagination." In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly in the programs...
...served in the Senate of the U.S. for eight years with Senator McClellan as a member of the Rackets Committee-where he spoke for what is best in the U.S.; and with Senator Fulbright on the Foreign Relations Committee, who has worked for a strong U.S. in a peaceful world-and also spoke for the interests of Arkansas...
Colonialism, as every African politician well knows, is the greatest evil in the modern world-and the most exploitable. It can be blamed for internal economic ills and incompetence, not to mention cold war and all other conflicts among nations. But colonialism-except in its Communist form-is fast dying out, and the African nationalists have been growing desperate in their search for a replacement. Last week, before the U.N. General Assembly, Ghana's Foreign Minister Ako Adjei found one: neocolonialism. "The colonial powers," said Adjei, "realize that the time has come for them to concede independence...