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...American Federation of Musicians. "We prefer to say 'withdraw our services.' " However one cared to put it, the lines were drawn last week for a possibly fateful labor struggle at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Since he was appointed executive director a year ago, Anthony A. Bliss, 62, has been negotiating with the 14 artistic and craft unions at the Met over new contracts. All have been performing since the summer under contract extensions that expire on New Year's Day. The musicians now say they will not agree to another extension but will withdraw their...
Perhaps the truest measure of the dilemma is that one can so readily sympathize with both sides. The Met, headed for another $9 or $10 million deficit this year, is in its worst financial trouble ever. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and president of the Met board from 1956 to 1967, was chosen as executive director to lead the company out of that morass. He has made it clear that his way will involve considerable retrenchment...
...cannot, of course, cut his work force by 10% or more, as New York City has done. A major orchestra operates at full strength or not at all. Bliss's latest proposal called for seven weeks' less work and a two-year contract offering no raise in salary the first year and a 5% increase the second year. With that offer, Local 802 began thinking strike...
...Playboy is hardly remarkable: a couple of bare arms and a single unholstered breast. But those appendages belong not to one comely lady but to two, and their embrace suggests something more than a hello. Inside are ten color pages of female couples in various stages of sapphic bliss. Has Playboy, the bible of macho heterosexuality, gone lesbian...
...mechanical chronos that has been foreign to most human experience. All organisms have "circadian" rhythms (from circa, about, and diem, day), whose periodicity is a response to biological needs. The psychological sense of time is one of durée, of bleak moments and moments of bliss, of the agony of time prolonged and time eclipsed; memory is not the function of a "length" of time, but of its intensity. Most important, in the area of work-the experience that shapes character-time was long considered a function not of the clock, but of the sun and the seasons...