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...Threepenny Opera is often cited for its lyrical and musical inventiveness, qualities which the Loeb production brings to the fore. But the lasting power of the play lies in the persistence of the problems which were paramount to Brecht's political concerns--the perversion of human character by poverty and exploitation, the evils of monied power, and the shallowness of middle class virtue in capitalist society. The themes of his musical are broad, stark, and important--and all the more forceful for the Repertory's outstanding performance...
...paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended on the fluid, spontaneous and unrepeatable movements of the hand. De Kooning-and to some extent Robert Motherwell -are the only surviving abstract...
Harvard, or so they say, has always been at the fore in leading this country's universities through political and social change. If the University's new independent investment unit is successful in forging an informal partnership among the firms managing Harvard's endowment, Harvard soon may also find itself at the vanguard of a new trend in money management...
...president of New York's Barnard College, a mathematician with a Ph.D. in educational psychology and an amateur ornithologist, who admits: "I am not a person who is terribly knowledgeable about business and Exxon." The world's largest oil company has never had a female director be fore, and Peterson suspects that she was chosen largely because "they felt it is important to have a women on the board." She is already the only woman on the boards of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and the Dry Dock Savings Bank...
...experienced lawyer as well as a journalist. He is typical of a growing band of attorney-reporters based in Washington. Until recently they were for the most part restricted to the Supreme Court and Justice Department beats. During the past year, Watergate has brought them to the fore, giving them both visibility and status...