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...HAVEN, Conn,--At a Yale fraternity, the bartender, a relic of the days when old St. Paul's and Groton boys would gather around his domain and jovially drink themselves into oblivion, lamented a bigone era as he sat alone in the darkened club house early last Tuesday evening...
...MASSIVE indifference of listeners to contemporary compositions is legion. For the past century of more, the taste of the musical public has become increasingly conservative as contemporary compositions retreat further from the comfortable domain of traditional harmonies. Donald Martino's professional life is at the center of this problem: he is the head of the New England Conservatory's composition department, a man who oversees the training of composers...
...President, too, turns people off by his manner, but in far fewer numbers. One is John Archea, who is working on his doctorate at Penn State. He moved from undecided to McGovern because "Nixon handles his office as his personal domain; he seems to take unprecedented personal advantage of Government resources...
...simply assumed that the Malays were content with Clunies-Ross rule. No one knew for sure, of course; the present ruler, John Clunies-Ross, a fifth-generation descendant of the islands' original settler, forbade the Australian administrator to set foot on Home Island, which he considers his private domain. Canberra's comfortable ignorance was jolted three years ago when a group of Malay headmen on Christmas Island, where the overpopulation from the Cocos was resettled after World War II, told Australian officials that their friends and relatives in the Cocos were like "birds in a cage." The Cocos...
...inclusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society. As the years pass the power of government becomes more and more pervasive. It is a power to suffocate both people and causes...