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...height of the 1971 Broadway season, Kalem's satisfaction over his successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...
What Is "Unreasonable"? The board left itself free to improve wage and benefit increases totaling more than 5.5% if its members should feel that the circumstances warrant such a move or that equity demands it. It could well grant higher raises, for example, to unions that agree to abandon featherbedding work practices. Low-wage workers who organize themselves into a union might also get clearance for raises larger than 5.5% that would bring their pay into line with previously unionized employees...
...major problem is not military but economic. Facing severe austerity in 1972, Sapir has announced plans to cut back on benefits for immigrants and on the elaborate pageantry planned for Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations. The Treasury is so hard up that Israel was even ready to abandon its claim to the 50 Mirage aircraft held in France under an arms embargo imposed by Charles de Gaulle at the start of the 1967 war. Paris announced last week that it would buy back the planes, which originally cost $67 million...
Today the Sutherland voice towers like a natural wonder, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland deals in vocal velvet, Sills in emotional dynamite. Sutherland's voice is much larger, but its plush monochrome robs it of carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though smaller, projects better and has a cutting edge that can slice through the largest orchestra and chorus. Sometimes...
More than a decade ago, C.W. Ceram, celebrated popular explicator of archaeology (Gods, Graves and Scholars), decided to abandon his "hobby." He would, he said, return to other subjects and write once more under his real name, Kurt W. Marek. Happily, the German-born journalist and critic, after allowing Marek a couple of bylines, could not vanquish Ceram entirely. In The First American, Ceram/Marek is back in his old haunts, providing once more a loving, readable, penetrating excavation of antiquity, this time in the New World, where he has settled. The Old World's overlay of monuments and documents...