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Harvard's cooperation has important implications for the Library complex, and specifically for the Institute of Politics. Ever since the President's death, the Kennedy family has sought to create a "living memorial," not just a monument--thus the emphasis on the Institute, which is supposed to bring the worlds of scholarship and politics closer together. But the Institute, for all the publicity, cannot stand on its own; at best, its existence merely constitutes a good excuse to do such things as bring senior government administrators and politicians (called 'associates') into Cambridge, or create a debating union modeled after Oxford...
...Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center's most recent monument, opened just over a week ago and the New York Times was not amused on four counts (the opera, the architecture, the decorative art, the opening night in general). But none of these four things are important compared to the miracle on 65th Street: for the first time in a Lincoln Center auditorium, you can hear--every note that the world's highest-paid orchestra and most celebrated singers produce...
...Target the Red Guards overlooked: their atomic-weapon development facili ties and the work of foreign devils like Newton, Einstein, Faraday, Mendeleyev, Leibnitz, Gauss, Huygens, Kirchhoff. There, indeed, is a monument to the West that any sane man would like to see at the bottom of Lake Baikal. If they do a really thorough job long enough, they will be walking to work and working at night by the light of blazing pine knots, even in the Celestial City...
...long as opera fans are willing to hear Carmen 100 times over and not tire of the same old rose clamped in the same old teeth, Bing's reasoning is hard to fault. At least he seems to think so, and the splashy new Met monument in Lincoln Center provides dramatic supporting evidence. The swipes from his critics, the tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best...
Despondents in ever-increasing numbers have also turned to the Eiffel Tower as just about the most dramatic jumping-off place in France. With the tower's suicide rate approaching one a month, the Paris press last year campaigned for anti-suicide barriers around the "cursed monument." The Eiffel Tower Society, which oversees the structure, obliged by building a 51-ft.-high steel-wire fence around the edge of each of the tower's three platforms...