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Master Plan. The argument revolves partly around the "finality" of Mahler's last draft. Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who was asked by Mahler's widow to complete the symphony shortly after a facsimile edition of the manuscript was published in 1924, decided not to undertake the job. "What his Tenth was to say," wrote Schoenberg, "we shall never know. It seems that the Ninth is the limit." Bruno Walter and other Mahler experts agreed...
...meal and rest-but no sleep. After two wide-awake nights, the sailors still did well at intellectually stimulating or competitive tasks such as playing chess, darts or pingpong. But they tended to nod at routine and tedious jobs, no matter how simple-like checking a manuscript for typists' errors...
Cain, a government professor at the State University of New York, spends several hours in the stacks each day, doing research for a book he is writing on Campus Conservatism. He has finished 10 chapters so far; the completed manuscript -- to be about half again as long -- will go to the printer in early September for publication sometime during the winter. A tentative title is "Conservatism in Youth: A Portrait...
Teilhard hoped to get his ideas published but, as a good Jesuit, obeyed when Rome said no. Nevertheless, manuscript copies of his works filtered into scholarly French circles. To the dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs...
Nominal author of the book is Dr. Herman Taller, 50, a Rumanian-born physician who practiced obstetrics in Brooklyn and recently moved to Manhattan on the strength of his expanding royalties. But, said the FDA, publishers Simon & Schuster sent Taller's manuscript to a freelance sports writer, Roger Kahn, to be revised "in more of a mail-order inspirational technique." The book absolved fat ties of their guilt by crediting them with a metabolic abnormality. It exhorted them to eat as much as they wanted of most fat foods, especially those containing unsaturated fats (see following story...