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Unfortunately, Ivan Illich's latest work has been published during such an ebb of American public interest in energy and its relation to food. But, in view of the massive famine this nation will soon witness in living color, Illich's book could not be more timely. He contends that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...
...soloists sing numerous arias and ariosos which reflect upon the drama. These singers were the source of whatever weakness existed in the performance. The accurate but weak soprano of Susan Larson failed to fill the hall. Alto Pamela Gore often shrouded pitch and rhythm with an excessive vibrato. Tenor Ivan Oak had inexcusable difficulty in following the conductor which, together with an inability to pronounce the German text, resulted in a disappointing performance. David Evitts, however, displaying a full-toned but agile bass, gave the sensation of an effortless flow of notes...
...most of the present-day prophets disappoint Thompson. Architect Paolo Soleri, with his beehive city projects aimed at accommodating architecture with ecology, and Educator Ivan Illich, with his hope of "deschooling" society, turn out to be looking backward. Reacting to a world too full of growth, they strive to return to simpler, medieval values. (Nevertheless, both Illich and Soleri represent something Thompson admires: the achievement of authority unaccompanied by institutional power.) The Club of Rome, on the other hand, looks forward to a world of no growth. But Thompson dismisses its recommendations too because he distrusts rule by any "technocratic...
...sudden prominence and independent ways (he recently said that OMB Director Roy Ash should keep his "cotton-picking hands off energy policy). Some of them have taken to making snide wisecracks about Simon: "When the President appointed an energy czar, he didn't know he was getting Ivan the Terrible...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, Friday and Saturday, March...