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...were voluntary, extracurricular activities, practical music flourished and had a splendid spirit. People were loyal to their organizations and they worked with them well. Individual performance was often of a very high order. On the contrary, where practical music was accredited as a part of the curriculum, there was apt to be far less enthusiasm, and far less accomplishment and loyalty," Thompson said...
...world preoccupied with newer conflicts, the sound and fury serves as an apt reminder that one older problem remains unsolved. Two decades after World War II, Germany is still divided. Its onetime capital languishes as an occupied enclave. Whatever the legalisms involved, it seemed somehow strange that a sovereign West Germany actually had to ask the U.S., Great Britain and France for permission for its legislature to sit in West Berlin...
...Cream & Corn. Presiding over all this fun and fanfare is Richard Fargo Brown, at 48 one of the younger major U.S. museum directors, and a man who, in a young city that thrives on cultural imbroglios, thrives on his wit and wisdom. A jocular scholar who is apt to bump into trustees with a chocolate ice cream cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years...
...tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to rephrase their questions more logically...
...sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks his wife's virtue as though it were big game is apt to bag peace of mind along with a pair of horns...