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...happened, this massive absorption of affluent but generally insensitive people into the audiences has coincided with a period of intense impatience with the old musical conventions, and urgent desires for new musical vocabularies. The result has been that the schism between composer and listener, which is an unmistakable sign of health, has become so broad that orchestras will not play new works. Even when they do, as in the cases of Elliott Carter's Piano Concerto or Milton Babbitt's Relata II, they cause outbreaks of hysterical recrimination, especially in those citadels of analytical dross, The New York Times...
...Bill 4580, written by birth control crusader William Baird and sponsored, by, among others, Cambridge's Rep. Mary Newman, would allow government-supported social agencies to provide their clients with free birth control information and devices, in effect giving the poor the same access to birth control that the affluent already possess. It deserves a "yes" vote from any legislator who is at all concerned about the needs of the Commonwealth's citizens...
Prosecution lawyers, who often tend to favor stable, relatively affluent jurors, shunned anyone they thought likely to feel undue sympathy for the underdog. While examining jury panel members last week, the state exercised peremptory challenges against the only Negro who had been provisionally seated, against a woman who had worked with psychiatric patients and against another woman suspected of having antiwar views...
...week's end, even the thorniest conflict-of-interest problem facing Nixon's extraordinarily affluent Cabinet seemed to have been resolved to the Senate's satisfaction. As for Hickel, the Senators kept their prehearing promise of teaching the Alaskan millionaire exactly what was expected of him in his national post...
...vacation villages reflect the fact that Mediterranee, which once appealed mostly to secretaries and young marrieds, has lately been attracting affluent, middle-aged vacationers as well. Within the next year Blitz, 56, still the club's chief, plans to open both an inexpensive "family village" in Tunisia and a costlier, more comfortable resort on Martinique. Last month the club, which was founded mainly to provide Frenchmen with vacations abroad, came full circle. It agreed to manage four new vacation resorts for the French government. French tourism declined by more than 10% in 1968, and officials want...