Mr. Menuhin, as anyone who has heard him play should have guessed, is not

merely a brilliant technician but also a wise and lovely man. Samples: "I think we have had too much thinking along simplistic lines about either/or. Either we are idealistic like Wilson or we are clever like the politician must be to protect the interests of the country. Unless there is in the idealist some practical wisdom and unless there is in the politician some distant ideal, his world will shrink to the immediate survival, which is too narrow an ambition." "I often thank Destiny and thank my wife and thank everything that's been given me for allowing me to spend part of the day with thoughts that are not concerned with immediate survival, with a great mind like Haydn or Beethoven or Bartok--to be able to cleanse, as it were, to have all of me belonging to the thought. That allows me

then to return to the preoccupations of the day without being dominated by them."