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Jones called the new program a "lame duck Staff Tuition Scholarship system" in a conversation last week. He noted that some of the conflicts which made the STS program both unmanageable and educationally undesirable still exist in the new program...
Time has eroded the social basis of Shaw's comedies. He loved to taunt imperial power, but it is pretty lame satire to twist a lion's tail when there is no longer a lion attached. He loved to tease the middle class, but in a welfare state, the middle class has lost both the hopes of fortune and the fears of penury upon which Shaw played. He loved to poke fun at lower-class blighters who dropped their H's, and today-irony of ironies-the sons of those blighters, and not he or his disciples...
Even in this limited circle, the effect of the document is awesome. Everyone who reads it is filled with in explicable joy. Miracles begin to happen. While reading the text a lame girl loses her affliction, and a deaf man looks up from the pages amazed - suddenly he can hear again. Even the project's public relations man, a worldly type who thinks of God as "some big bag of ooze in the sky," is seized with faith...
...mental and spiritual sin. In "The Geranium" and "The Last Judgment" old age is Dudley's leprosy; in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" it is Lucynell Crater's retarded, overweight daughter; in "Everything that Rises Must Converge" it is Julian's mother's bigotry; in "The Lame Shall Enter First" it is Rufus Johnson's club foot; and in "Parker's Back" it is Parker's tattoos. These disfigured are always the prophets and voyeurs of sin. Flannery O'Conner draws clear, black lines from the sterility, the dust and the dead-beat poverty of the southern...
...acknowledge the somewhat tarnished reputation of original-instrument recordings. It is not uncommon to find record-collectors who have been disgusted with records claiming authenticity that simply sound bad to them. There is truth to this: there are groups who have sought to escape charges of faulty musicianship through lame invocation of historical accuracy. The victims are innocent record-buyers. One friend of mine became so disgusted with original instruments (on an admittedly poor Fireworks recording) that he refuses to consider another purchase of the sort. The Concentus Musicus is the answer to this dilemma: they provide the technical perfection...