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...life, as of so many cities, is the accelerating downward slide. One of three houses is substandard. More than 15% of the population receive some sort of public assistance. Crime rates are among the nation's highest. Burned out and abandoned buildings stare from the ghetto in memoriam to the devastation of the 1967 riot. The mayoralty is thus a doubtful honor. If Hugh Addonizio wins it while he sits in a courtroom, he will match the record of Boston's classic rogue, James Michael Curley, who also won re-election as mayor while under criminal indictment...
Frowning, the musicians tried again to make all the diddlidongs and sboops in German Composer Hans Werner Henze's In Memoriam: Die Weisse Rose sound the way the conductor said they should. And the conductor was in a position to know. It was Henze himself, rehearsing for the first of two concerts of his works last week in Hopkins Center on the campus of Dartmouth Col lege in Hanover...
BORIS MARGO-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. In Memoriam, one of Margo's "sculptured canvases," is a tall (eight-foot) tribute to President Kennedy. On canvas stretched over wood, the artist traced an elaborate calligraphy with sand. At first it seems to be Sanskrit, but on study English words emerge. Other pieces, of varying shape and material, employ other languages. Through June...
...Angeles last week, no less than in Geneva, it was "the Kennedy round." When the curtain went up on the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association, a huge portrait of the late President was the backdrop. The opening session was programmed in mourning type: "In Memoriam John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...Memoriam Sir: The enormous swell of sympathy and despair that has risen throughout this nation and the world is testimony to these overwhelming aspects of John F. Kennedy -he had within him a sense of greatness; he bestowed upon the presidency a literate, a sensitive and even a poetic value. These values were considered by most people to evidence brilliance and genius. It is this that transcends politics and nationality-the tragedy of his untouched capacities...