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...music, which Conductor Karajan molded superbly. He toned down the singers' usual tendency to bellow and brought out a fresh quality of refinement through subtly shaded dynamics and sensitively modeled phrases. "Chamber music of the soul," rhapsodized one critic, while others looked ahead to the addition of Das Rheingold next year, Siegfried in 1969 and Götterdämmerung...
...that the world is in the midst of profound cultural and political changes and that the church should make sure that whatever society emerges is Christian in tone and outlook. To a man, its adherents admit to being followers of Karl Marx-not, they explain, the turgid economist of Das Kapital, but the youthful, philosophical Marx who protested against man's alienation in a dehumanized industrial society...
...feedback from advisers, who rotate back to Cambridge every two or three years, is increasing the DAS's academic contributions. Last year, one adviser returned; this year, three; next year, seven. About 22 short-term advisers go out for three months and provide a more immediate feedback into teaching and research...
Although the DAS has had no formal teaching function in the past, this year it is undertaking a graduatelevel course and using cases drawn from the experience of overseas advisers. Moreover, a slew of professors in economics--Simon S. Kuznets, Arthur Smithies, John R. Meyer, and Mason, to name a few--have gone out with the DAS to consult with field experts and then applied their findings in courses...
...thing that the Center, the DAS, and all the departments have in common is lack of space. In the past, the main interest in international studies has centered around the Russian Research Center, the International Affairs Center, and Eastern studies focusing on Chine. But Latin American studies have spread considerably in the last two years, and the Japanese Department has expanded with the return of former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "When the new building is constructed," Dean Ford remarks, "one thing is for sure: there will be a scrap for space...