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...largest cultural complex. It is, moreover, a fitting memorial to an enduring art, for it symbolizes, if not a resurgence of opera (for opera has never before been so popular), at least the conviction that opera is an essential golden thread in the nation's cultural fabric. The mere existence of the new Met, in short, means that grand opera is headed for a grander future...
...fabric of history is rent with unanswered questions and unresolved doubts, and for many men those tears and slashes prove far more intriguing than the whole factual cloth. From the disappearance of the Holy Grail to the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of history's great events have been marked by suspicions of connivance, corruption and conspiracy. Today, 34 months after the tragic event, a new web of doubt is being publicly spun around the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas...
Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed from such French masters as Goncourt, Flaubert, Maupassant and Turgenev (whom he insisted on calling French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could...
...travel, once a luxury for the few, has become part of the very fabric of modern living. If this was not clearly apparent in the past, the airline strike brought the truth home. This week's cover story focuses on newly thriving TWA and its president, Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., but the subject is the entire industry and its rather fantastic prospects beyond the immediate problem of the strike...
...week's end Ky demonstrated another brand of toughness, which was welcomed by the U.S. Roaring inflation had threatened to rip the fabric of South Vietnamese society: food prices had risen 85% in 18 months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting...