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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Philips, 3 LPs). Conductor Colin Davis' exemplary latest chapter in the resurrection of Hector Berlioz...
Allen discourses with equal ease about walruses and carpenters, shoes and ships, and, yes, sealing wax, about profits and prophets and peaceful coexistence (the Quakers invented the notion), countinghouses and fo'c'sles. Finally, in a chapter that begins on page 210, this whole sea catalogue reaches the subject announced in the second half of its subtitle: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet...
CARPENTER CENTER, A Missing Chapter in the History of U.S. Documentary Films, Dec. 6, at 7:30, free...
Cooke's last chapter is titled "The More Abundant Life." He sees the bright truth and the ironic falsity of that phrase. There is a strong sense in his summation that the U.S. is a kind of Distant Early Warning system for the rest of the world. His book, in fact, has the feel of a memorial, and perhaps that is a key to its charm. Cooke's America is really a handful of well-polished touchstones for those who know this country's history well...
...writing becomes more objectionable when Cohen moves onto topics somewhat more sensitive than the weather. Examining a professor's suicide, he calls the chapter "An Unexpected End" (which is itself mildly obnoxious) and then goes on to write...