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Occasionally Powers' exasperation and despair overcome him and his control slips. Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
WITH THE SAME concern for drawing out the contrasts between different sections of a piece, the Bach Society turned to Beethoven's Symphony No. 1. The Orchestra followed whispering passages with resounding responses--a favorite juxtaposition of the composer. Written while its creator was under the influence of classical masters Mozart and Haydn, the symphony contains hints of Beethoven's spirit of adventure in the final two movements. Stulberg conducted the repetitive and less interesting first half of the piece too slowly, adding, however, to the effect of the lively third and fourth movements which the orchestra performed with extra...
...begins, Candide with piano, an innocent exploited by everyone he encounters, especially Wagner (who became his son-in-law). Lest the audience wonder about the personality of Wagner, the film transforms him into Dracula, literally sucking the blood of his first patron, then into Dr. Frankenstein, sole creator of a monster named Hitler...
...invocation, for example, reads in part: "To Lord Narayana, to lotus-born Brahma, the Creator, to Vashishta, to Shakti, and to his son, Parashar, to Vyasa, to Shukadava . . . I bow down . . . At whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night, adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed down to him, we gain fulfillment...
...glamorous comic-strip heroine in 150 newspapers, was finally going to be married. Though she accepted the proposal of the ever-faithful Larry Nichols last week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five or six years...