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Acoustic Research Contemporary Music Project (Deutsche Grammophon, 6 LPs; $2 each). The makers of AR loudspeakers and other audio equipment are offering records devoted to 16 American composers largely ignored so far by the record-industry majors. Especially worthwhile are Milton Babbitt's Philomel, for soprano (Bethany Beardslee) and synthesized sound, and an airily atonalistic set of madrigals by Pulitzer Prizewinner George Crumb. The records are available by mail from AR, Inc., 24 Thorndike St., Cambridge, Mass.02141...
After graduating magna cum laude from Williams (where he majored in music) and studying with Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt, Stephen, at the age of 25, decided that Broadway was ready for him. Broadway decided otherwise. Through no fault of the author, his first effort (Saturday Night) expired along with its producer. For a time, Stephen knocked out scripts for the television sitcom Topper and honed his skills as an amateur gamesman. Sondheim is one of the world's fastest cutthroat anagram players, and the walls of his Manhattan town house are covered with antique game boards. (Between shows...
Welcome to Babbitt. At latest count, 2,500 organic food stores were operating in all 50 states. In Florida, stores are opening at the rate of one a day. The largest concentrations are in the capitals of hipdom: New York and California, but organic food stores have also reached Ozark, Ala., Longmont, Colo., Penacook, N.H., and Babbitt, Minn...
...Comparative Literature and English; Harry P. Kerr, professor of Public Speaking; Martin Kilson, professor of Government; Davia C. Kmsey, assistant professor of Education; Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor; Klaus-Friedrich Koch, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Rustam Z. Kothavala, director, Harvard Science Center, lecturer on Geology; Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Maynard Mack Jr., assistant professor of English; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology...
...Alfred, a photographer who specializes in snapshots of excrement, he is your average apathetic male set upon by a conventionally aggressive female named Patsy (Marcia Rodd). Her pursuit of Alfred is typical Feiffer: overpowering feminity frustrated by Silly Putty masculinity. Her father (Vincent Gardenia) bellows like the urban Babbitt he is while Mom amuses Alfred with pictures of her dead son. Another sibling snivels around the apartment in sexual ambiguity...