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...their efforts to engender various sanitary habits in small Ivoriean villages. Our net accomplishment for six weeks was probably zero, or close to it, but at the same time I learned a lot about the village life, and the attitudes of Ivoriens in general. Perhaps the best way to convey an idea of the day-to-day work and my own mental ups and downs during this period is to reproduce parts of a diary I kept of the summer...
...films we showed were a series of Walt Disney cartoons designed to convey certain essentials of hygienes the need for clean houses and courts, the importance of latrines, proper care of food and water. With a portable generator mounted in a truck we were able to bring the films to villages, in addition to a number of showings in the town of Aboville. Excellent as the films were, however, their success, was limited. In the typical village nine out of ten people have never seen a movie, and are so taken with the physical image on the screen that...
...were bright and full-throated, but the strings sounded thin and oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face can convey more than the arms, smiled and scowled like a silent-movie hero, occasionally punctuated climaxes with gestures as sudden and menacing as a karate chop. Compared with Russia's other two major orchestras, both of which have previously toured the U.S., the Moscow Philharmonic proved itself superior...
...appraisal than Michel de Montaigne. Four centuries have passed since, pent in his tower study outside Bordeaux, he set down the Essays that were to transport his name to literature's firmament. Immured in an age that was largely brutal, incurious and ignorant, he managed to convey a message and a spirit so lively and civilized that they have come down through the centuries virtually unscathed...
Operas do convey a great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with...