Word: amenability
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...such thoughts here. Saturday night, conductor F. John Adams exploded this musical myth and several others. In addition to mounting the Mozart-Sussmayr Requiem complete, Adams had Robert Levin compose an Amen fugue to follow the sequence Dies irae. Levin's fugue was based on fragments left by Mozart which Sussmayr, for some obscure reason, preferred to leave untouched. Brief but masterful and prodigious, the fugue sported a long Brahmsian timpanum roll which acted as a tonic pedal bringing the fugue to conclusion. It was another plume for Levin's many chapeaux...
...behalf of the Container Corporation of America, Communications Prophet Marshall McLuhan, 55, whose sibylline pronouncements have so often been models of noncommunication, explained the McLuhan phenomenon. "People make a great mistake," he said at a press conference, by trying to read me as if I were saying something." Amen...
Last week, fresh from his successful battle to kill the 1966 Civil Rights Act, Dirksen rose in the Senate to introduce his so-called "Amen Amendment"-a measure designed to strike at two Supreme Court decisions by modifying the First Amendment so as to permit voluntary prayer in public schools. Few religious leaders favored the amend ment, but that hardly daunted the minority leader. Who did support his cause? "Not the professionals in the church hierarchy," declared Dirksen. "Not the cocktail-party, luncheon-circuit bunch. I'm talking about the church members-the rank and file-and they...
Even so, Dirksen refused to give up on the Amen Amendment. "I will not let it die," he said, adding that a national organization is already being formed by such Protestant leaders as Daniel Poling and Billy Graham to carry on the fight in the 90th Congress...
...nobody knows me, maybe I'll be somebody with a job." Miss Kaufman contends in the book that there is only one consolation for a teacher's many agonies: "To make a permanent difference to at least one child." Her teacher-readers respond with a heartfelt amen...