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...forged an agreement with Hussein on a joint diplomatic strategy. Arab moderates have advised Arafat that, given the pressures imposed by the rapid Israeli colonization of the West Bank, it might be time to use the P.L.O.'s ultimate weapon-recognition of Israel's right to exist-in a bold show of statesmanship. But Arafat allowed the unity and preservation of the P.L.O. to take precedence over the interests of the West Bank's residents. Similarly, moderate Arab leaders like Saudi Arabia's King Fahd have been reluctant to apply much pressure on Arafat...
...students have left private schools to ride a bus 45 minutes each morning to Johnston. In 1980, 90% of the students were below grade level in math; by 1982, the figure had improved to 54%. Although no racial incidents have occurred, full integration in campus activities does not yet exist. But Salgado is confident that this problem will also eventually be solved. "You aren't going to see it right away," says he. "But it is going to happen-because these kids want to make it happen...
Today's "Friends of ROTC," however, is likely to be less controversial, veterans of 1969 predict. Pipes, one of the Faculty sponsors of the group, feels that, simply on the grounds of freedom of speech, the club should exist. What's more, Pipes contends. "We need good officers, and Harvard, as part of an intellectual elite, and other schools like Harvard, should provide their share...
However, there are some essential and irreconcilable differences between "popular" and "serious" art forms. Rock music--which is today's "pop"--relies on its audience and the collective consciousness of a generation of youths for its power. Rock cannot--and should not--exist in a vacuum. It is by "the people" and should be for the people, although that might be wishful thinking in this age of corporate control. "Serious" art--for our purposes, classical music--emphasizes the artist, his ego, and a purely subjective and personal outlook. Success usually comes only after the classical composer dies and sometimes...
Though artists like Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass have helped break down the barriers between the classical and popular through such devices as amplification, those barriers still exist. And Rockwell, by choosing to emphasize the experimental over the popular excludes the music that has most influenced the lives of 20th century Americans Indeed, the only truly popular composer included here is Neil Young, who hardly warrants the messianic status Rockwell has bestowed on him. Dylan would probably have been a more appropriate example of the marriage of art and popular tastes...