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...latest project-the score for a forthcoming TV musical commissioned by the BBC-is a crucial test, since it is his first major work not built around his harmonica playing. In his own mind he apparently passes the test, for he is now seeking Thornton Wilder's approval for a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth. "At the moment, I feel I'm a kind of footnote in musical history," Adler explains. "I've put something into concert music that wasn't there before. But if I could make a real mark...
...wrote one of the two or three most quoted books on economics in the past decade, The Affluent Society, and he considers that to have been only a prelude to this more comprehensive work. Ever since he broadcast chunks of it in six widely discussed lectures on the BBC late last year (TIME, Jan. 6), it has been awaited by his fans on Capitol Hill and beyond...
...Which was banned by the BBC on the ground that it "could encourage a permissive attitude toward drug taking...
...Cathedral "because I looked such a cherub. I would just mime the words." He dropped out of school at 15, toured as a boy soprano in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera. His real education came from performing in 500 radio playlets for the BBC's "School Broadcasts...
Directed in grainy, neorealistic style by Peter Watkihs, 31, The War Game was commissioned by BBC-TV (which eventually decided that it was too gruesome for home viewing), and won an Oscar as the year's best feature documentary. For the most part, Watkins plays his horror story straight and as close to reality as possible: scenes showing the collapse of order, for instance, are based on the record of civilian be havior at Hiroshima, Dresden and other cities devastated during World War II. Sometimes, though, Watkins' passion for peace leads him into moments of maudlin melodramatics...