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...Bergman's "popularization" of the original libretto. But he's done the rest of us a service--to the uninitiated The Magic Flute's message can be hard to fathom, seeming alternately simpleminded and ponderously abstract. The opera is an allegorical celebration of the ideals of the Masonic brotherhood, a secret, illegal society to which Mozart belonged, and the elaborate rituals that take up over half the opera are closely modeled on the initiation rites of the Order. Eighteenth century audiences would have instantly recognized the political allusions couched in the story: the feud between the Queen of the Night...
...Trucking Associations, the industry's voice, noted that the great majority of trucking companies do $500,000 a year or less in business, and that there already are 15,000 trucking companies. The ATA snarled: "The trucking industry needs more competition like Custer needed more Indians." The International Brotherhood of Teamsters concurred, sensing that Ford's bill would keep rates and profits of big truckers smaller than they otherwise would be, and thus probably limit pay raises for drivers. At a meeting with Administration officials some weeks ago, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons vented these views in a profane...
...closer than Sakharov to the spirit of Nobel's bequest. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov went on to become an indefatigable fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence, as the only way to save mankind ... As a nuclear physicist," the citation continued, "he has, with his special insight and responsibility, been able to speak out against the dangers inherent in the armaments race between states." The five-member Nobel committee, appointed...
Though Lifton refuses to comment specifically on Patty, he notes that people who are particularly susceptible to brainwashing very often exhibit "an enormous aspiration toward social change and toward human brotherhood, which might be connected, under pressure, with various forms of individual guilt over the way one had lived one's life...
...Pact country. On Czechoslovakia, the celebration had a distinctly hollow ring, the presence of Soviet troops in the country since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal Brotherhood With the Soviet Union" propaganda approach somewhat heavyhanded. A Polish student in Gdansk (known in history books as Danzig) told me a joke that is currently making the rounds among his friends. An orange is rolling on the Polish-Soviet border, and two border guards, one Russian and one Polish...