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Maass holds Kleist firmly to account for the spillage of his life. But he is overly apologetic for the writings. Penthesilea, Kleist's drama about the clash between Achilles and the Queen of the Amazons on the plain of Troy, does not, as he suggests, combine the best features of Greek tragedy and Shakespeare. It is Kleist's tart little fragments that most charm a reader today. There is, for example, the Swiftian modest proposal for sending messages by artillery and cannon ball, if speed is what everybody wants. There is the marvelously straight-faced account...
...worth the price of admission if only to hear the superb Larry Bangor and his band Wild Kingdom, formerly Human Sexual Response. If only the program could have cited all the music incorporated into the work--the opening bars of The Clash's "The Call-up" were clearly audible at one point, but nowhere acknowledged. It's impossible to guess how many other elements are mixed into the chaos: after all, there's an awful lot going...
Representatives of a local development company recently altered their plans for a four-story office and retail complex on Mass Ave after community groups complained that the building would clash with the older structures in Harvard Square...
...latest foreign cry of protest came from four English-speaking universities in South Africa itself The Pretoria Government precipitated this newest clash. Starting last week the South African Parliament was scheduled to debate quota regulations concerning admission of Blacks to that nation's universities. Such a system would replace the current policy, under which the Minister of Black Education reviews cash Black student's application. This review system applies, to Asian and "colored," or mixed race, applicants as well. Like most of the apartheid policies, this one also began in 1959. Since that time, the English-speaking universities have opposed...
...there a clash of vivid personalities. The young Menenhetet, age 6, has the ability to enter the minds of those around him, a power he shares, it turns out, with his mother and great-grandfather. What this means, in practice, is that mystery becomes unnecessary. Whenever one character wonders what another is thinking or feeling, telepathy comes instantly to the rescue. Different people are simply parcels of the same brain, one that usually resembles Norman Mailer's. Menenhetet I often sounds like the world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There...