Word: far-out
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...credit who once played semipro baseball, a father of four who spent a year as a Benedictine novice. He can talk to students-as well as to businessmen and farmers-with equal ease about politics and poetry. At the risk of sounding fey, he usually prefers the far-out. A New York Times reporter last week described this conversation between McCarthy and Poet Robert Lowell, an ardent supporter who has been traveling with the entourage...
...full five-year course, the Italian Parliament dissolved itself last week, opening up a fresh season of politics, Italian-style. No fewer than 73 political parties have already registered their wish to run in the May 19 elections for seats in a new Parliament, among them such far-out groups as the World Sacred Idealism Party, the Movement for Divorce & Solidarity and the Friends of the Moon. As usual, however, the elections will be primarily a collision between Italy's two largest parties: the Christian Democrats and the Communists...
...PAUL TAYLOR, 38, is a tall, block-shouldered Tuned-in from Pittsburgh who spans the gap between classical and modern like a colossus. He had his fling at the far-out, once stood stark still onstage for four minutes (Dance Observer responded by running a review that consisted of four inches of blank space). But today he also has a bit of Mr. B. in his,bonnet. Aureole is a freshly pressed version of a washed-out, frilly "white ballet," in which his dancers interweave flurries of mincing steps with great swooping glides without a seam showing. In Orbs...
What happens when you take one of Berkeley's liberal-minded philosophy professors and give him complete freedom to fashion an experimental liberal-arts program that lets students talk endlessly with talented teachers? Quite naturally, some of California's most pro test-prone, far-out students will sign up. In 1965, when Joseph Tussman started his Experimental College Program, the far-outers soon discovered that Tuss man, former head of Berkeley's philosophy department, had some seemingly square notions-such as that learning involves hard work and that one aim of education is good citizenship. But those...
...music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...