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Rerun season, a bane to the regular viewer but a boon to the occasional one, is in full flower on the networks. Most of the weekly series now contract for only 26 new episodes a year, which leaves the other six months to be filled with repeats of segments shown earlier in the season or from years past. It's a happy time for those who love The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and baseball with equal fervor, less so for those who suspect that the episode they missed last fall wasn't worth watching in the first place...
Then there was David Borden's aria for soprano and orchestra on Dylan Thomas's Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age. There was no clear relationship between the music and the words. The poem invokes a myriad of very different images: plant metabolism, evaporation, the action of tide and wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated...
Whether it will ever return in full flower is a matter of conjecture. Meanwhile, Callas remains indisputably the most exciting operatic presence of her generation. Asked afterward how she thought her performance went, she could only say: "You find a word. I can't." But who could put Callas in a word...
...early Program reflected Hoffmann's point of view. Entering sophomores were expected already to have chosen a broadly conceived "problem" that would eventually flower into a thesis topic. Course requirements for concentration were liberal on paper, even more liberal in practice, and junior tutorial centred around problem area (e.g. "industrial societies") rather than methodological or disciplinary themes. To give all the students a common core of knowledge, however, the Committee on Social studies provided a sophomore tutorial covering the "writings of leading social scientists of the past" and "the problems of method common to the social sciences...
There are no beds-only mattresses on the deck. The volunteers sleep like flower petals, with their heads as close to the room's center as they...