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...torture is virtually the same everywhere: to gain information about subversives, terrorists, opposition groups, and to intimidate would-be dissidents. A show of brutality can be a devastatingly effective way of keeping people in line. Yet in many Communist nations this is simply not necessary: the torture chamber, anti-Communists argue, is countrywide. All-powerful, ever vigilant party apparatus, supported by huge secret police forces, make opposition almost impossible; thus torture on a grand scale is superfluous...
...cleansing of impurities. Victims in Chile say that DINA interrogators refer to Santiago's infamous Villa Grimaldi as the Palacio de la Risa?the Palace of Laughter. In Iran, Otagh-e Tamshiyat, or "the room in which you make people walk," is a name for the blood-stained chamber where prisoners are forced to walk after torture to help their blood circulate...
Indian Hill Chamber Orchestra, Willis Traphagen, conductor, at Decordova Museum, Lincoln. Info...
...wasn't really the Harvard Summer School Chamber Players that performed in Sanders Theater on Tuesday night. Its members were all on stage, true--but as the nucleus of a chamber orchestra whose roster included some of Boston's best free-lance musicians. Accordingly, Tuesday night's performance, the sixth and last in the Chambers Players series, was marked by brisk enthusiasm and a high level of technical competence...
...numbing austerity. On Tuesday night, the brass and percussion were especially noteworthy; the former carrying out their role as an antiphonal block, the latter as understated punctuation. Lawrence Lesser, cello, and Robert Portney, violin, fit well into the ensemble sound--both have tended toward romantic interpretations throughout the Chamber Player series, and the piece provided them a suitable outlet...