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...Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist...
...Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations looked as dull and uninviting as any other Government document. Even the Government Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question is of considerable interest. As it happens, most of the weight...
...proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly "modern" work by Thomas Beveridge. The Harvard group had a darker sound than Yale, better dynamic control, weaker top tenors, better phrasing, and better comic relief in the form of an accompanist who agonizingly wrenched childishly simple parts from his ill-starred piano. A final comparison is impossible since I shamelessly...
...Bacchae--A triumph for the Charles Playhouse and all concerned. Director Timothy S. Mayer has updated Euripides' play in translation and costumes, invested it with modern music, and staged it almost vertically. The devices are amazingly consistent with one another, also with the interpretation, and most of all with the play. The cast is fine. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton...
Mumma has been a center for liberal and radical work at Harvard. His leaving "would be a tremendous blow to all sorts of activities," Noam Chomsky, professor in the department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at M.I.T., said last night...