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...PAUL JOHNSON, M.D. Canon City, Colo...
...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...
...foreign relations -even Job reeling beneath the unkind attentions of a dubious Yale God gets off the hook at the end through Love, which has now replaced the third-act marines of a simpler time." And in a piece lamenting a supposed decline in satire, he proposes an excellent canon for satirists in an age that has gone mushy with tolerance: "As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity, it is, or should be, a fair target for satire, both for its own good and for society...
More surprising than the official U.S. rebuttal was some back talk in Moscow itself. One restrained critic was Canon Lewis John Collins of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a leading British unilateral disarmer who was accompanied on the trip from London by such other ban-the-bombers as anti-American Pundit Kingsley Martin, ex-editor of the New Statesman and Nation, and Physicist John D. Bernal, a Lenin Peace Prize winner. Collins received a hostile reception when he coupled criticism for the "wickedness" of U.S. nuclear tests with Moscow's "grave error" in becoming the first...
...diction, so that the characters indulge themselves in pouring out poetry at great length and turning an etat d'ame into a cosmic phenomenon. Like King John and two parts of Henry VI, Richard II has no prose; and it contains more rhymes than any plays in the canon except Love's Labour's Lost and Midsummer Night's Dream. As a whole, the play is vastly superior to, say, Romeo and Juliet, written at the same time...