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...Amherst briefly yesterday and stopped by the town center. I stood in admiration of the intellectual life surrounding me--Amherst is Emily Dickinson's hometown and also a famous seat of learning in New England, with the presence of Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, not to mention Smith College down the road in Northampton and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. How could a few citizens of this traditionally liberal enclave have made such a crushingly wrong decision, based on a fundamental misunderstanding, by canceling the free expression of a classic musical which still...
Think of the benefit the community would have gained from a high school performance of the musical, followed (or preceded, or both) by vigorous discussion and debate over the origin of the story, its influences and the aims of its creators. Dickinson once wrote in her poem "The Show": "The show is not the show,/But they that go./Menagerie to me/My neighbor be./Fair play--Both went to see." The great poet could not have imagined these neighbors, and sadly, there will be no "West Side" show to see in Amherst this winter...
...temporary unemployment benefits. If the money comes through and states resist the urge to balk at Clinton's decree, this proposal has a lot going for it. "This is great news for anyone who's part of a family or plans to start one," says TIME contributor Amy Dickinson. "A lot of very important emotional work between a child and its parents takes place very early on." And a financial boost like this, Dickinson adds, would allow an oft-sidelined player back into the game: "Dads will be more involved with their babies, and that's good for everyone...
...well, judging by this lovely CD, on which a studioful of opera stars, including Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair and Frederica von Stade, performs 26 songs by Californian Heggie, who is currently adapting Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera. Heggie sets poems in English by poets old (Emily Dickinson) and new (Philip Littell) in the Samuel Barber/Ned Rorem manner--agreeably lyrical, unambiguously tonal--and his big-league cast responds with obvious relish...
...victory set up Monday's final against Columbia, which had rolled over Fairleigh-Dickinson, Penn and Princeton in the first three rounds...