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...time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, both the Voice of America and the BBC naturally devoted extra air time to news and comment. Much of the comment expressed outrage and dismay, some from Communist papers around the world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major...
...pour out Masses, passions, oratorios and a large share of the 350 cantatas he is believed to have written (of which 224 survive). Yet Bach's listeners remained unimpressed. At the first performance of his St. Matthew Passion, one puritanical woman in the congregation cried out in dismay: "Heaven help us! It might be an opera...
...utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work is one organized explosion of dismay suffused with the solace of Schoenberg's fund of religious faith, the somewhat overwrought vitality of the performance was understandable...
...proportionately less impressed with the Beatles as the quantity of their quality work declines. When, out of 30 songs that are clearly not setting new standards, so very few of them are worth frothing over by one's old standards, one cannot restrain a certain sense of dismay. In fact, the Beatles have provided us with such moving delights in the past that it would be unworthy of us not to be disappointed by their failure to live up to our wildest expectations...
...dismay of death row, the court ruled 4 to 3 last week that capital punishment is constitutional. Vainly the three dissenters argued that the death penalty should be struck down because California law offers no guidelines to help juries decide whether a convicted man should go to prison or the gas chamber. "If a civilized society cannot say why one man should be executed and another not," replied the dissenting opinion written by Justice Mathew Tobriner, "it does not rationally, logically take life. Instead, it grossly denies due process of law, inflicting death on the basis of a trial that...