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...that obviously agrees with him. Instead, he has compromised with a bloated, percussive score that, stripped of its bluster and its "commitment," is too often little more than a plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak louder and far more honestly than the clamor onstage, do we hear the real voice of Leonard Bernstein, struggling to be heard amid all the earnest chatter. Perhaps it is time for Bernstein to forgo the crutch of a text, which has served him so poorly of late, and listen to what his own voice is telling...
Thanks to the clamor over the forged Hitler diaries, one almost overlooked entirely the news from Rumania. There, on April 28, a government decree took effect requiring all citizens to register their typewriters with the police. The stated purpose of this decision was to prohibit Rumanian troublemakers from typing anti-Communist leaflets, but anyone concerned with the fate of the typewriter will recognize a trend. It is going, this wonderful machine. It is on its way out of the world. Whether at the urgings of the Communists or the word processors, the device that has come to be called...
...clamor for verification will surely continue until Stern opens the Hitler archive to detailed, patient analysis by scholars. Then, aided by the published record, historians would be able to reach a clearer idea of how much the 62 volumes could contribute to the historical record. If the diaries are authentic, their provenance has been tainted by Stern's mishandling of their verification. Asked to believe the all but impossible and denied the opportunity for proof, academics and most of the press rightly balked. Trevor-Roper summed up, more in sorrow than in anger: "As a historian, I regret that...
With a sudden uproarious clamor, 15 members of the Yale Band stormed the Freshman Union yesterday evening, provoking Harvard freshmen to return the challenge by hurling food and shouting obscenities...
...they survive their far-flung travels, that is. Because the migratory patterns of Atlantic salmon are well known, commercial fishermen can easily catch the fish either at their feeding grounds or as they are about to return to their rivers. With increasing clamor, Scots are blaming the shortage of salmon in Scottish rivers on the perfectly legal, internationally negotiated agreements that allow fishermen from numerous European nations to net salmon in the open North Atlantic...