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LIKE SEIJI OZAWA, Michael Tilson Thomas, or Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta is among the younger, "new breed" generation of conductors--and one of the best. As he showed this past Sunday afternoon, he can present a solid program of substantial variety, after which the concert-goer feels elated, rather than fatigued, as is often the case after the performance of a monumental work. Mehta has enough vitality to give the music--and so the audience--an emotional lift...
...aide did not find it particularly funny. "I don't think that would be very appropriate," she said icily. Indeed it wouldn't. Canvassing smacks too much of the old politics of traipsing up and down three-deckers on dark nights, for this new breed of political activist. Much better to greet old friends here and discuss old lost causes than to confront a different group of people in the working class areas of the state...
...morality. To choose morality in politics as one's ultimate goal while proclaiming one's own prejudices as morality is bad enough without varying those prejudices from day to day. McGovern's every statement is couched in moral terms; those who oppose him are evil. Such extremism tends to breed a volatile situation which makes grave excesses of power possible. A McGovern Administration would put the American regime in jeopardy, a very sad prospect when we stop to ponder the likely alternatives...
...attempt to make something out of his meager talent, B.U. coach Larry Naviaux has fiddled around with a variety of offensive systems. This year, he's come up with a half-breed offense known as the wing-bone. So far, it has produced more fumbles than touchdowns...
...realistic plotting. The Sot-Weed Factor is a parody of the 18th century English picaresque novel, replete with all the themes and devices that genre requires--journey and shipwreck, character disappearance and reappearance, discovery of long-lost relatives, bawdiness, drug peddling and diverse and sundry legal entanglements. Plot complications breed plot complications, and the tangle of events exceeds comprehension. It is the quintessential 18th century novel two centuries too late. Barth enjoyed himself completely...