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SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
While man's exploration of space would be impossible without computers, the biggest changes worked by these remarkable machines are taking place right on earth. Just out of its teens, the computer is beginning to affect the very fabric of society, kindling both wonder and widespread apprehension. Is the computer a friend or enemy of man? Will it cause hopeless unemployment by speeding automation, that disquieting term that it has brought into the language? Will it devalue the human brain, or happily free it from drudgery? Will it ever learn to think for itself...
CHARLES IVES: NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAYS (Composer's Recordings, Inc.) Ives, who wove homespun materials into a startling modern fabric, is widely regarded as the prickly father of contemporary American composition. His four orchestral holiday pieces (1904-1913) are now assembled permanently for the first time in a quasi symphony; though-musical economics being what they are-all were recorded by foreign orchestras. Thus the Imperial Philharmonic Orchestra of Tokyo plays for the barn dance in Washington's Birthday, the Finnish Radio Symphony celebrates Decoration Day, Sweden's Goteborg Symphony the Fourth of July, the Iceland Symphony Thanksgiving...
SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
...planes are in the works (ten members have joined forces in a single project). The role of an E.A.A. wife is not inconsiderable. "Mine helps when I need someone to hold the other end of something or lift something," says Gwinn. "She also helps with the painting and fabric work." But forbearance is perhaps the cardinal virtue of a woman whose husband has an airplane in gestation. "When you're working with metal, it gets pretty noisy," says Shewmaker. "And then, of course, you have to give your garage to it, even if you assemble the wings separately. That...