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When the performance was over, the cheering audience was in a mood to name Bernstein an honorary citizen What he had done essentially was follow Composer Strauss's own advice to interpret Rosenkavalier "with one eye weeping and one eye winking." Thus while most Viennese conductors play down the rich orchestral part for the sake of the singers, Bernstein gave it new prominence, urging it on by jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: With One Eye Winking | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...idea is that you learn how to look at things, how to create things, and how to interpret things in the visual environment. For example, last fall's final exam in arch sci (next year called vis stud) 125 was a slide show of material studied in the course and only some of which were pertinent to the test questions...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Where Vis Stud Is At | 4/25/1968 | See Source »

...either think one needs a flash to take a picture out of the sun, or they think the camera is a magical mystery tool that might catch them doing anything anytime. This nervous generation of nonphotographers wants some "good, bad" standards to guide it through wearying indecision and to interpret the nonliteral into words...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Still Photography | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

...interpret the lifted siege of Khe Sanh [April 12] as a reciprocal act by the North Vietnamese for the decreased bombing of the North. The siege was lifted because 6,000 outnumbered Marines, who were never doubtful of the outcome of the impending attack, made a stand. They fought, slept and died in the muddy trenches they called home, while Americans sitting before their color television sets called Khe Sanh a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...Bowman, probably dead (if we are to interpret make-up in conventional terms) finds himself in a room decorated with Louis XVI period furniture with fluorescent-light floors. He sees himself at different stages of old age and physical decay. Perhaps he is seeing representative stages of what is life would have been had he not been drawn into the infinite. As a bed-ridden dying man, the monolith appears before him and he reaches out to it. He is replaced by a glowing embryo on the bed and, presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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