Word: occasionals
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Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that realizations of a work of art--the performances of a symphony or play--are not uniquely determined by the...
He never did-on treaty business. In fact, no President ever again appeared before the Senate to argue a treaty's merits until a desperate Woodrow Wilson did so, in 1919, to plead for approval of the League of Nations. Soon, other countries came wearily to recognize that any...
As both Houses of Congress moved toward an overwhelming vote against his position on the war in Viet Nam, Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, characteristically seized the occasion to advocate a new and radical departure from U.S. strategy. What Fulbright proposed last week...
All of which makes the current exhibition of Japanese artworks, the most important to be sent overseas since World War II, an historic occasion. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the $4,000,000 display of treasures is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, winds up...
Although under no obligation to sing for those who come to see her, it is rumored that Miss Merman has commissioned a song to be written especially for the occasion.