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...Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits larger autos to a dollar's worth. Says Hunt: "I give them just enough to get them off the road. Those big gas gulpers are the ones doing the damage...
This simple theory applies equally to the sprawly vastness of a Bruckner symphony and to the compact contrapuntal workmanship of one by Brahms. The two giants are radically different in their approach to composition and in their goals. But this point seems to have escaped the performers Friday. They sang through motets by both composers with stodgy phrasing, a limited dynamic range, and a sort of funereal literalness which reduced the genius of both men to a common level of gloom...
...Columbus a Jew? Was his expedition to the Indies actually a search for the lost tribes of Israel? Such questions-never satisfactorily answered-are asked in this compact, fascinating, exasperating reinterpretation of Columbus' mission. The author is Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Vienna Documentation Center, which meticulously tracked down Adolf Eichmann as well as more than 1,000 other Nazi war criminals...
...even such "permissible" offenses, even such instances of "mere" misgovernment, become intolerable. And the situation changes fundamentally when the effect of the President's actions and the actions of his appointees is to subvert the constitutional system itself. He then betrays his formal oath of office and his informal compact with the people...
...ahead of its rival, Polaroid Corp. Kodak showed off its new Supermatic 8 processor, in which 50 ft. of movie film can be developed in less than 13½ min. by an unskilled operator v. the 20 to 30 min. required by highly paid technicians using conventional equipment. The compact machine is roughly the size and shape of an office photocopying machine; only an hour is needed to learn...