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...then altering them. The effect is somewhat like the Escher prints in which water flows uphill, straight columns bend, and roofs and ceiling invert on each other. Mirror Way at the Fogg is an elaborate experiment in such deception: pathways are blocked, stairs run up into floors, a ladder leads up to a slatted roof which then leads nowhere. In short, the structure is illogical--it feigns functionalism and yet refuses to function...
Sands is now safely back at Harvard and recently won the fall challenges to reach number one on the Harvard tennis ladder...
...Whatever anger the poor experience is acted out in antisocial ways-vandalism, homicide, riots-and the sense of shared misery in the lower-income groups prevents people from feeling so isolated. With well-to-do kids, when the rattle goes in the mouth, the foot goes on the social ladder. The competition ethic takes over, making the child feel even more alone. He's more likely to take it out on himself, not society." The '60s may have held down the teen-age suicide rate by providing a sense of community, built around drugs and opposition to Viet...
...suffer the most when unemployment goes up are the nation's 25 million blacks and 12 million Hispanics. They traditionally have endured unemployment rates that are about twice the national average. In addition, their jobs have by and large been concentrated at the bottom end of the income ladder in labor-intensive industries such as textiles, the hotel and restaurant service trades and garment making. Those are usually among the first businesses to begin laying off workers during economic downturns...
...Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) is a portion of a grandiose, uncompleted oratorio. A chorus of souls in limbo shuffles about the stage, awaiting reincarnation. Their doubts and frustrations are chastened by the Archangel Gabriel, effectively sung by Bass-Baritone William Dooley. The music, first sketched around World War I and completed later, has more lateromantic intelligibility than Erwartung, but it is so somber and static that one eventually wants to cry out with the chorus: "Is it really to go on like this forever?" Yet there is a moving finale. Soprano Janet Northway, as a soul who is dying...