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Schmertz, who had them adapted from a series of Mobil newspaper ads, has enlisted such talents as the American Ballet Theater and Mimes Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell to act out his messages. One of the most elaborate of the spots, the tale of a misunderstood elephant, combines cartoon animation, costumed frolicking by the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and a clever voice-over (see box). In another, the A.B.T. dances out the story of a squirrel who was good at finding nuts...
...wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat...
Thanatology had been one of the most misunderstood and neglected areas of study until Elisabeth Kubler-Ross [Nov. 12] began her work. Her publications have been a boon to clergy and laity alike when confronted with the one inescapable fact of life-death. The strength, courage and understanding given to untold others cannot be erased. In this case, today's news does not negate yesterday's triumph...
Most important, the government must vest in one agency the responsibility for waste disposal--which threatens to become a bigger problem when chemical waste policies are viewed this winter. Inconsistent policies and bureaucratic buckpassing has turned a misunderstood situation into a political debacle. As DiSibio says, "They better stop worrying about who's going to be elected in 1982 and start worrying about who's going to be alive...
...Misunderstood...