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...Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets of member countries or of a drawdown in force levels. In the wastebasket were the blueprints for converting NATO into a nonmilitary instrument of East-West bridge building. The situation that now faced the alliance was bluntly put by NATO Supreme Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions that Russia has moved permanently into Czechoslovakia have "significantly...
Computers are finding unlimited opportunity in the arts. Music, for instance. The electric wave which goes from a musical instrument or a recording into the speaker of a sound system can be represented with total accuracy as a sequence of numbers. And since computers can do anything with numbers, they can in principle duplicate not just any sound that the human ear can hear but any sound that can be created. They do it by emitting 20,000 three-digit numbers a second--something no human could ever do--and turning them into an electric wave that can activate...
...paradoxical considering that the HUC currently is having its most fruitful year. And as the student body becomes more radical, the HUC, with some major reforms, should be able to lead and organize future movements for University reform. To commit suicide now would be to throw away a viable instrument for turning student demands into concrete action...
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
Quite apart from his self-proclaimed roughness, Brecht is a particular idol of Brook's because of his contention that an audience should wake up and think, and that drama should be an instrument of social change. Brook accepts too uncritically the notion that Brecht wanted an audience to think for itself: no playwright was a more sedulous brainwasher. Despite his fierce ideological bias, however, there is no convincing proof that Brecht-or any other playwright-ever altered the course of a society. Reflecting the nature of a society is another question; all good drama does that...