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...music reviewer since last May, these attributes have proved very handy. In seven months he has made 20 trips away from his New York City base, including three to California, for performances of the San Francisco Opera; to Buffalo, for a story on Rock Singer Pat Benatar; and to Lewiston, N.Y., for the American premiere of Philip Glass's controversial new op era, Satyagraha. He has been to Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, and the White House twice, once for a memorable concert featuring the American debut of a long-lost Mozart symphony. Last week found Walsh...
...Says Company President Roger Hoyt: "About ten minutes after the game was aired, we knew we had a problem." But Sampson Supermarkets are not welching: the stores will pay off all of the unintended prizewinners, and so far 330 people have collected. Says an exultant Mrs. Arthur Poulin of Lewiston: "We called them and then they called us into the store and took our pictures and gave us the check. They're all right! Maine people are very honest." They also don't look gift horses in the mouth...
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...drawn entirely from the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred Hindu text that served as the moral authority for Gandhi's nonviolent resistance movement-called Satyagraha, after the Sanskrit words for truth and firmness. But perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the opera, given its American premiere at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y., last week, is the music itself. Melodically sensuous, harmonically simple and rhythmically hypnotic, Satyagraha rejects the dominant musical style of the postwar era, twelve-tone serialism. Yet it does so gently, even serenely: the composer has practiced what Gandhi preached...
...attack on federal profligacy and voted for him last fall. Now, however, Reagan has threatened Andrews' dream by proposing to slash $800 million from the student loan and aid programs that are his lifeline as a freshman at Bates, a small (enrollment: 1,450) liberal arts college in Lewiston, Me. Andrews' summer savings and the $35 a week he earns as a lifeguard at the college make little dent in the $7,500 tuition and board. Says he: "Cutting financial aid for students is not cutting fat, it's cutting lean...