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Three centuries of tonality have led the modern listener to expect certain familiar kinds of progressive harmonies, but masses and motets written in the old church modes presuppose a different set of expectations. Just as the modal fabric of Renaissance music is foreign to the twentieth century ear, the context of modern music--a permanent background of muzak in supermarkets, television soundtracks and the stereo next door--bears no resemblance to the silence that Byrd and Gesualdo labored to fill. There are no grand gestures in this music, nothing simple for the listener or the performer to grab onto...
...method of perpetual questioning, he is assessing the destinies of 20th century man in a Shavian play of jousting ideas. In dramatic kinship, Jumpers is a child of Shaw's Heartbreak House. In that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...
Role Playing. Such self-conscious role playing was the very fabric of Hitler's life, says Fest. The book, not surprisingly, often presents the Führer in the ebb and flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich...
...must be defeated. Many of them hold vulnerable seats and can be defeated with strong campaigns. All that demonstrating will do is create a backlash reaction in the electorate. The issue will change from the U.S.'s role in Southeast Asia to whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring the war to an end is to try to elect an anti-war majority in Congress...
Sooner or later, planners will have to take a firm and uncompromising stand toward the growth, or non-growth, of Harvard Yard. Both of the projects here discussed were sensitively planned, but both introduce innovations which may have far-reaching effects on the total fabric of the Yard. Intellectually, numerous efforts to render the new buildings compatible with the Yard's current architectural atmosphere have been made. How successfully the buildings--and their immediate environments--will contribute to that atmosphere must be experienced before it can be judged...