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Down with Ceilings. In this clash of styles, the original building comes off best-at least the architecture carries the authority of uncompromising anachronism. But internally, the Atheneum has gained 15 new galleries, a new restaurant, library, bookshop and sculpture court...
...master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also a sprinkling of housewives: Tassajara is the world's first Zen monastery to admit women...
...houses in Gia Long Street and killed eight civilians. Another landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror. A fourth round smacked into a bookshop on Tu Do Street, killing two Vietnamese maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from the statue of the Madonna of Peace...
Since then, the discarded original version has been performed rarely-and, as far as is known, never in the Western Hemisphere. But two years ago, Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf found a copy of the 1805 score in a Prague bookshop, was struck by its "awe-inspiring" power, and thought it would make an effective concert presentation at the Boston Symphony's summer home at Tanglewood, near Lenox, Mass. Last week, afier Leinsdorf conducted a boldly sculptured, energy-charged U.S. premiere of the work at Tanglewood, it was emphatically clear that he had been right...
...Threat of Piracy. Branching out in new directions, Maxwell this year bought Britain's largest typesetting firm, the famed London bookshop of John and Edward Bumpus, and a subscription-book subsidiary of Press Lord Cecil King's International Publishing Corp...