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Since then, Conductor Johnson has continued to plug modern music, plus rarely performed classical programs, with the same zeal in Fish Creek that he shows in Cincinnati. Once, after receiving a note from a concertgoer scolding him for playing Bartok, he took the man to lunch, gradually converted him-as he converted many of his audiences. But he is still disturbed by the opposition he occasionally encounters. "The tragedy of the contemporary music scene is people's lack of humility in the presence of art. The public has become such an authority; right away it's good...
What qualities make a successful diplomat? Says Machiavelli: he must have "little regard for good faith and be able, by astuteness, to confuse men's brains and ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation." Says Talleyrand: "Above all, not too much zeal!" Says the U.S.'s John (Open Door) Hay, Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905: "There are three species of creatures who, when they seem coming are going, when they seem going, they come: diplomats, women and crabs...
...Moody Baptist. The man the Canadian people chose in June's election to guard their liberties, ensure their prosperity, levy their taxes, and sell their wheat is a husky (5 ft. 11½ in., 175 lbs.) prairie lawyer who practices the profession of politics with all the zeal of a successful evangelist. John Diefenbaker is an intense, moody man, sensitive to personal affront. His deep-set blue eyes can blaze with anger or fill with quick emotion; moments later he can smile with easy friendship, remember a name, recall an anecdote to suit an occasion and mood. Brought...
...zeal for fast cars and beautiful women, Spain's late Marquis de Portago (TIME, May 20) neglected the legal adoption of one of his sons, Kim, now 3. Legally fatherless, little Kim was last week the object of a private tug o' war that will probably never land in the courts. Racer de Portage's mother, Olga Martin-Montis, holder of the De Portago purse strings, is fond of her grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed...
Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...