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ASSASSINATION attempts used to acts of stealth, committed with as few witnesses as possible. But ubiquitous television cameras have helped to change all that. Last week, in a chilling echo of the attacks on George Wallace and Lee Harvey Oswald, a slim, thirtyish man in a dark suit tried to stab to death the beautiful, popular wife of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, and millions of people watched it live and in color or in replays. Television crews, assigned to cover Imelda Romualdez Marcos, 43, as she presented awards in a national beautification and cleanliness campaign, caught the entire action...
NINETENNTH CENTURY AMERICAN philosophy was the stepchild of our literature. What we had of it came secondhand from Europe, and often even our best authors garbled the echo. Given this vacuum, it is surprising that our one sensible and consistent 19th century philosophical masterpiece have been so often praised for his least accomplishments (as a naturalist and social entice) and so rarely credited for what he achieved as poet and prophet. Harvard Philosophy Professor Stanley Cavell argues in his newly published essay. The Senses of Walden, that the neglect of Walden stems from the failure of philosophers to take Thereau...
...seems to prefer building with blocks of sound, drawing contrast from combinations of timbre rather than individual efforts within a given part. This is on excellent policy when dealing with an acoustical entity as dry as Memorial Church. In a building that holds over 1000 people and offers no echo, terraced dynamics and antiphonal contrast are the surer path to expressive variety...
Overhangs the set. As the breath of an echo...
...privacy. Editor Tattilo is unrepentant. "After all," she said last week, "Jackie knew that photographers have shot at that particular location more than once. If she didn't want to be photographed, she should not have exhibited herself." Others, more concerned with taste and privacy, might echo Turin's La Stampa, owned by Fiat Chief Gianni Agnelli, a longtime friend of Jackie's: "Italy would have done better not to publish those pictures...