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...heart of the University of Paris and the hub of the previous week's violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even donned helmets and directed traffic on the Left Bank...
...stage in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Conductor Zubin Mehta got ready to play. Unlike most concertgoers, the audience fastened its attention not on the musicians but on Syn-Ket, a strange instrument set on a table in mid-stage...
When Composer-Pianist John Eaton, 33, began to play his Concert Piece for Syn-Ket and Symphony Orchestra, the audience quickly discovered that there was nothing childish about the instrument. Syn-Ket is the first machine capable of performing electronic music "live" in the concert hall. Like the various sound synthesizers that have preceded it, Syn-Ket can approximate known instrumental and noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...
...hundreds of localities and in thousands of concerned hearts, bridge building between the races is under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that...