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Most serious of the new pro-U.S. organizations is CONSCIENCE (The Com mittee on National Student Citizenship in Every National Case of Emergency), launched at Stanford by two Princeton transfers who said they felt "uncomfortable" over the "incredible extremism on all sides" in California. CONSCIENCE, which is organizing a nationwide "lecture-in" on Nov. 22, argues that pro tests only "discourage the Viet Cong from seeking a peaceful settlement in Viet Nam." Last week CONSCIENCE Chairman Hal Scott invaded the Vietniks' favorite stage, the Sproul Hall steps at the University of California's Berkeley campus, drew...
...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...
...Rorem is tall, dark, hand some and undoubtedly the best com poser of art songs now living. "I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence. The New York City Opera and the Ford Foundation believed him, commissioned him to do an opera. Last week Rorem's opera, based on Strindberg's Miss Julie, had its premiere. The overall verdict: Rorem would have been better off with the encyclopedia - and the U.S. is still looking for its first major operatic composer...
...computer has become a main stay of big business in the U.S., but most small and medium-sized companies still find it too expensive for normal use. Last week two of the biggest com puter makers, General Electric and Control Data Corp., introduced new systems that will offer the small business man the same computer advantages as the biggest corporation. Their move to what is called "time sharing" is part of a growing trend to market the com puter's abilities much as a utility sells light...
Despite Peking's eagerness to see India take a shellacking, the war hardly fits China's devoutly held Leninist belief in an inevitable clash between Com munism and the "capitalist-imperialist" West. Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such...