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...Deutschland ran in adjoining columns pictures of Angela Davis in chains and Lieut. Calley leaving the stockade. Private Eye, London's black-humor satirical review, ran a cover photograph of Charles Manson with the caption: "I should have joined the Army." In Saigon, the respected, generally critical newspaper Duóc Nhà Nam objected: "The Nixon decision tacitly acknowledged that the savage and mass killings of Vietnamese civilians was right. A white American who killed hundreds of yellow-skinned Vietnamese was personally freed by the U.S. President...
...years following The Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity...
When the unnamed heroine of Rebecca thought she went back to Manderley again, she was dreaming, of course, about the grief-drenched mansion where she had been so scared and had acted so dumb. But there has nevertheless been a real and steady procession back to Daphne du Maurier's literary landmark by women who know exactly how to conduct themselves. Some of the world's most prosperous authors check in every year either at Manderley or at one of the two other historic homes on the tour: Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre was governess, and Wuthering Heights...
...father of modern music, the driving force behind the art in the twentieth century. With a combination of talent and courage, he opened the pathway down which hundreds of composers have since come. Everyone must know by now the story of the riot at the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, of the mingled approbation and opprobrium he earned for it. By the time of his death, he had gotten a place in the standard repertoire, but he never lost his talent, or his courage...
Stravinsky's career spanned a series of distinguished creations. Petrouchka, L' Histoire du Soldat, Oedipus Rex, dozens more. But perhaps his true spirit is reflected as well in his later works, his short pieces composed when he no longer had the energy for major works. His arrangements of poems and other texts, like his setting of The Dove Descending Breaks the Air. his short fanfares, his occasional pieces and variations, all are touched by his genius. Although his health failed drastically in his later years, and most of his business was carried on by an assistant, his creative career...