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BERNSTEIN'S CASE for Stravinsky is eloquent and convincing. He quotes Theodor Adorno, a dogmatic advocate of Schoenberg who accused Stravinsky of hiding behind an insincere mask of eclecticism. Bernstein defends the neoclassical mask as a reaction to the extreme subjectivity of overblown Romanticism and draws interesting parallels to the poetry of T.S. Eliot. But here, too, his polemic dislike of Schoenberg leads him to inaccuracy and self-contradiction. Having accused the serialists of mechanically turning out music that is "form without content," he now condemns them for discarding the order imposed by diatonicism. Stravinsky's "great save," neoclassicism...
Four teaching fellows said yesterday they were generally optimistic about Harvard's intention to set up a center to assist graduate students in their teaching, but said they hoped the grant would not mask other problems facing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Ultra intercepts could be retransmitted. Allied field commanders had to mask privileged Ultra knowledge with conventional intelligence gathering (like air reconnaissance) to keep the enemy from suspecting odd coincidences. In 1943, when American pilots, armed with precise information from Ultra, shot down the Japanese navy's Pacific chief, Admiral Yamamoto, over the island of Bougainville, London protested to Washington about the lack of an adequate cover plan. Fortunately the Japanese were too shocked to notice...
Class barriers are tumbling at the Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...
...execution of Equus there are no ambiguities. Together with Director John Dexter and Set Designer John Napier, Shaffer has fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro...