Word: polarize
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EVERY obituary writer, and every music critic, in this country has by now observed that John Barbirolli and Goerge Szell were polar opposites. While Barbirolli was the actual successor of Toscanini in the New York post, Szell was, in a very real sense, his spiritual successor. Toscanini and Szell were cut from the same cloth: men of precision who held tight rein over their orchestras and insisted on perfection in their performers. Like Barbirolli, Szell was a distinguished soloist in his own right. To a far greater degree than Barbirolli, he pursued his career as an instrumentalist all his life...
...scheme that tries to divide members of the paper into revolutionary and administration-toadie camps is bound to be wrong far more often than it is right. Aside from one or two permanent polar opposites, most of the political alignments on the paper shift constantly-and leave no real trace for the reading public to follow. As far as I can tell, the people now running the paper are as politically diverse as most classes have been for the last few years...
Then, as if the polar axis had shifted, came the liberation of Vatican II. The Mass was invaded by drums, guitars, mariachi ensembles; experimental liturgies were celebrated in the vernacular. There was Communion under "both kinds"-bread and wine-a privilege that the Latin-rite laity had not enjoyed in centuries. (Protestants customarily receive both bread and wine, but Catholics believe that the bread alone -the living body of Christ-includes the "blood" as well.) Now the Vatican and the many national conferences of bishops are in the process of adopting an official new Mass that combines both longstanding tradition...
...archers. In his home town of Grayling, Mich., the chief industry is the Bear Archery Co. The main tourist attraction is the new $350,000 Fred Bear Museum. Though Bear has stopped a four-ton bull elephant with a single arrow, shot polar bear in the Arctic and Bengal tiger in the jungles of India, he claims that "the wariest, craftiest and hardest game of all to hunt is the white-tailed deer of North America...
...moment the center's situation room may be monitoring events as varied as an outbreak of leaf-cutting ants in Peru, an unusual polar bear kill in the Arctic, or the drift of a floating island in the Caribbean. After the flight of Apollo 11, it reported the lunar rumblings recorded by the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base. Even the recent discovery of a primitive jungle tribe in Surinam fell within the category of passing phenomena. Reason: the Indians' Stone Age culture will change so rapidly under the impact of civilization that anthropologists may lose a rare...