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Died. Luigi Dallapiccola, 71, Italian twelve-tone composer; of heart disease; in Florence. In 1939, Dallapiccola adopted Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method of composing and with it produced complex, passionate vocal and instrumental music in which he tried to express Europe's suffering. He became known in the U.S. through such well-received works as his opera The Prisoner, and his several stints as instructor in composition at Tanglewood. Mass., and elsewhere...
...Cassavetes's earlier work." Kael closes her article by comparing Cassavetes to Harold Pinter: "[Cassavetes's] special talent--it links his work to Pinter's--is for showing intense suffering from nameless causes." Stephen, towards the end of his review, states, "Cassavetes's admirers compare his home-movie method to Harold Pinter's drama...
Cassavetes's admirers compare his home-movie method to Harold Pinter's drama. Although his well-known closeness to the actors, and his dependence on them, is offset by the tighter script of Woman, many scenes are still too protracted and improvisory. The film is nicely framed by two dinner scenes in which Mabel gamely attempts to role-play her Image of sanity. But there are scenes within the film which threaten to wander out of the theater...
...synthetic oil production. Meanwhile, the large oil companies have ignored coal as a source of oil and are turning to distilling oil from shale. In extracting shale oil the companies are determined to distill the shale above ground, instead of underground, which is the cheaper and less environmentally--destructive method. Technologists in the Bureau of Mines have estimated that shale oil can be distilled underground for less than a dollar a barrel, but, in the words of one Justice Department lawyer, "The world oil cartel fears that the cheap production of oil from coal, or shale oil distilled underground, might...
...student-election amendment, on the other hand, is somewhat subtler. Management makes the argument that certain schools should be guaranteed a minimum number of directors. If one grants that the logical method is to divide the students into separate voting classes and to discontinue electing all at large. But that is not what they propose. They want to eliminate from the bottom of those elected until they get their "required" proportion. (Note: In my two elections as a student (HGSAS) I was the last man elected and I would have been eliminated under the new amendment.) The fact is, this...