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Boston pays teachers on a par with its richer suburbs, but working conditions are antiquated. Teachers must still munch lunch at their desks while policing the kids. Young teachers avoid Boston, and the average age of teachers is close to 50. Apathy, fed by authoritarian administrators, wreathes the system like a cloud of poison...
Forged Card. The pictures recall Anne Frank's diary-but they are dimmer; there is no precocity in them. Charlotte Salomon had studied art, and clearly had been impressed by the paintings of Edvard Munch-works with all the intellectual content of a scream. She painted in pursuit of self-abandonment-only to find that she had created a new world for herself in which she remained the grey onlooker, helpless to change the course of things but committed, all the same, to watch. From this she adopted her only moral: "I wish everyone I know the experience...
Festival Spirit. Tanglewood has been the Boston's summer home for 27 years, and its musical standards have always been as high as the orchestra's. But over the course of Charles Munch's 13-year reign as Boston's maestro, Tanglewood wilted sadly in the August heat...
...Munch was little interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...
...hear them chatter, the U.S. team that took on Russia last week was the hottest thing since sweat suits. "Each of us is the best in our field," boasted Hurdler Rex Cawley before the meet. "The Russians have two chances -slim and none," chortled High Jumper Gene Johnson. Munch, Munch. The words must have tasted bitter. After two disastrous days in Moscow, the men's team barely edged the Russians, 119-114, and the women's team lost by an embarrassing 75-28. It was the worst performance by any U.S. squad since the start...