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Hallmark Aids. Throughout, Everding has succeeded in projecting the lovers' desire for eternal night and their equation of day with destructive reality. Tristan dies in a bleak courtyard as the sun burns harshly through a sea mist. But Isolde's Liebestod brings on more aeronautics. Arms outstretched, she again appears in the firmament, looking for all the world like a "Peace on Earth" Christmas card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spaced-Out Tristan | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Following the talk, the crowd adjourned upstairs to the Fogg Courtyard for cocktails...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Harvard Welcomes 'Civilization' | 10/7/1971 | See Source »

...courtyard quickly filled with culturati. As Sydney J. Freedberg '36, professor of Fine Arts, intoned to a group of young ladies who had regrettably forgotten their Webster's, Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, bemoaned what he felt amounted to a 30-year wage-price freeze at Harvard and mused about the next slow boat to Flanders...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Harvard Welcomes 'Civilization' | 10/7/1971 | See Source »

...toothbrush handle, and two of the guards had been shot. Four of the bodies were piled into Jackson's cell, perhaps saving the life of a wounded guard who was covered by the corpses. Jackson and another prisoner had dashed from the Adjustment Center, sprinted across an open courtyard toward a wall in an attempt to escape. Jackson was killed by a single bullet fired through the top of his head from a guard tower above the courtyard. The other prisoner was captured unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death in San Quentin | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

Inside the Center, inmates huddled at the far end of the cell block holding two wounded guards as hostages. Prison authorities fired into the building, and during the confusion the guards escaped. With that, the uprising folded. The 25 prisoners were led into the courtyard, forced to strip and lie manacled on the ground. When one of the prisoners moved, he was shot in the leg by a guard. It was the last shot of a violent day. According to lawyers who visited the prison later in the week, the inmates remained naked on the ground from 4 that afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death in San Quentin | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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