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Harvard v. John C. Berg...
...third of its scheduled season by labor disputes, which were finally settled three weeks ago. Looking over his plans, Music Director James Levine concluded that "the losses for the future seem remarkably small." The house reopens next Wednesday, and the Met will begin performing such works as Alban Berg's Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed; La Traviata and Parade, a trio of one-acters by Satie...
What proved most significant about Berg's experiment, and helped win the prize, were the steps that immediately preceded it. The virus he wanted to introduce into the bacterium was itself a hybrid. By ingenious use of enzymes that can cut, patch and join nucleic acids, he and his colleagues managed to splice DNA from a bacterial virus into SV40's genes, forming a single closed loop. That was the first time scientists had been able to link the genes of two distinctly different species, and thus created the prospect of producing entirely new life forms...
...Crimson ruggers dominated the intense first half action, methodically driving around end, after successfully controlling the play. Supported by Harvard's talented linemen, hooker Rick Kief repeatedly directed the ball back to the waiting O'Berg, the scrum half. "Little Red," who seemed to be all over the field throughout the game, would crisply pass the ball to one of the backs...
...complex, uncompromising, obstinately single-minded in its innovative rigor. Audiences have felt, as many critics have, that Schoenberg put truth before beauty. They have often found him easier to take at second or third hand, as refracted through the more immediately appealing work of Student Alban Berg, for instance, or any of dozens of lesser figures...