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Palm trees and well-tended flower beds brighten the grounds of the four grey stone and concrete buildings of Villa Devoto Detention Institute in Buenos Aires. But the facade hides a multitude of sins and sinners: inside, Villa Devoto is the darkest penal hellhole in all Argentina...
...prison has a rated capacity of only 800 prisoners, but the filthy cells are crammed with 2,180 men. Some have been waiting three years for their cases to come to trial. At noon one day last week, discontent in Villa Devoto reached the flash point. Attempting a mass breakout, 400 prisoners seized 20 guards as hostages and demanded freedom...
...Satan writing to the Archangels Gabriel and Michael, Twain pictures man as the foolish and conceited victim of his own preposterous religious beliefs. Coming from manuscripts dated in the last few years before Twain's death in 1910, the book was pieced together by the late Bernard DeVoto in 1939. But the content so disturbed Twain's Christian Scientist daughter, Mrs. Clara Clemens Samossoud, now 88, that she refused to allow publication because she felt the essays presented "a distorted view" of her father's ideas. It took 23 years before she finally agreed that "Mark Twain...
Both of the orchestra's readings of the DeVoto piece evidenced rather hurried preparation; the strings especially often had difficulty agreeing on the notes. With the Mozart oboe concerto, however, they experienced no difficulties whatsoever. Ray Still, it is probably unnecessary to announce, is one of the country's best oboeists; his performance was remarkable for its sonority and its precision...
...Mark DeVoto's Introduction and Allegro, which the orchestra, bless them, performed twice, is an attractive and intelligent, if occasionally somewhat disjoined, piece of music. Mr. DeVoto writes with easy assurance; his deft, varied and imaginative scoring and an evident command of conventional forms allow him to experiment at leisure with the work's harmonies and tonalities. This is a relaxed and clever style reminiscent, if anything, of the early Ernest Bloch--I have in mind particularly, his Concerto grosso for Orchestra...