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Tentatively, Mme. Nhu said, she planned to visit the U.S., though it would be like getting inside "a lion's cage." "I shall just talk extemporaneously," she said. "I am invited by the most important press groups. After lynching me, more or less, now they wish to hear me." She denied that she was going to be South Viet Nam's observer at the United Nations General Assembly. "I have nothing to do with the U.N.," she said. "I am not even going there to visit, because I have already seen...
...Lower East Side, and with chicken soup and peaches to keep them going, a dozen pianists kept the ritual alive for 18 hours and 40 minutes until the final E was struck for the 840th time the next afternoon. The pianists, who were led by Composer John Cage, presented uniform poker faces to their audience, and everyone who bought one of the $5 tickets got a nickel refund for each 20 minutes he stayed in his seat...
...Cage, who has by some means determined that "people today are no longer afraid of time," played Vexations 75 times himself, then retired to sleep soundly on a foam-rubber pad down in the basement. But those who sat through the whole thing found themselves deeply enriched by the experience. The pianists were all transfixed by the music's windshield-wiper logic, and while each played his 20-minute turn (15 Vexations), the relief pianist stood by the piano, cultivating his interior immobility. "This kind of music," said one communicant, "leads toward the elimination of conscious control...
...York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed to show up, found his mind tuned to an "inner state of balance"-whatever that is. "The experience," he wrote after he recovered, "is dreamlike, and the pianist tries to resist waking...
...Cage was on his feet with his mesmerized colleagues to take his solemn bows when the historic moment arrived. The audience-including an actor who was the only one to sit through the whole concert, and a neo-Dadaist who honored the occasion by wearing a bell around his neck-jumped to its feet for a spirited round of applause. "Bravo!" shouted the inwardly immobile. "Encore!" shouted a desperate...