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...Michael Foreman (Arcade; $16.95). A Briton makes the '40s home front seem as recent as last week. No horrors here, just a collection of strangely compelling trivia. When bombs went off, for example, they scattered seeds out of gardens. "The following spring and summer, piles of rubble burst into bloom. Marigolds, irises and, best of all, potatoes sprouted everywhere...
...even Whitesnake should be kept away from the public. How far down the slippery slope of paternalism will MTV travel? Since when does MTV claim to be the protector of public morality? After all, Allan Bloom has long maintained that MTV concists of "hymns to onanism and the killing of parents...
...junket was good and even necessary, urgent business he had pushed back during the U.S. budget struggle and the election. In Wenceslas Square, Bush's evocative words raised a great roar: "There are no leaves on the trees, and yet it is Prague spring. There are no flowers in bloom, and yet it is Prague spring." In the huge crowd, vendors sold copies of the U.S. Constitution for 8 Czech crowns (30 cents) each...
...Harvard offers hereditary privileges that virtually guarantee the recipient wealth and status. The donations stemming from this privilege allegedly improve the College's capacity to provide for the poor. If Fitzsimmons cannot see the injustice in this, then perhaps the moral anesthetization of Harvard has proceeded farther than Allan Bloom feared...
What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master...