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...Mustangs" [Nov. 16] seriously misled the American public about the wild horses. These animals have been on the rangelands for more than 100 years, much longer than the big cattle and sheep corporations. A large part of this area is public land, owned by myself and other Americans who object to the destruction of the mustangs...
...listings, to be sure, are a bit complicated. The same star sometimes receives a different designation in different catalogues. Currently, one of the most intriguing stars to astronomers is an object in the constellation Aquila (Eagle) that seems simultaneously to be hurtling toward and away from us. It is designated SS 433 because it was the 433rd object listed in a catalogue published a few years ago by Case Western Reserve Astronomers C. Bruce Stephenson and Nicholas Sanduleak. But it is also listed in a standard inventory of variable stars (whose light brightens and dims) as V1343 Aquilae...
...make an object work, functionally and aesthetically, it must be placed in its proper context. A chair must fit into the room. The room must fit into the house. The house must fit into the street. The street must fit into the city...
Brook defends his treatment of Carmen as something historically necessary: "Brick by brick, layer by layer, opera has been encased over the centuries to the point where today it is perhaps the most unnatural object in the whole of our society. To correct this, we must go back to the very roots of what the composer has in mind, to restore opera to its natural life...
Young race horses are gelded for being too excitable or too unexcitable: they won't train or they won't race. Geldings must have some quality, because the object is to wind up with a useful race horse. They must not have too much quality, because the big money is in breeding. Successful colts become richly syndicated stallions. At the last Keeneland summer sale, the Cartier's of horseflesh, one yearling went for $3.5 million, more than any horse ever won, even John Henry. In this coldblooded, blueblooded business, it is a nice thought that a peasant...