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...particularly sorry spectacle has been the attempt of some conservatives to claim the ruling as some sort of victory. These are the same people who present Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court bid as proof of what Suzanne Garment calls in the current Commentary "[T] he liberal monopoly over the great academic institutions and even over the idea of intellectual merit itself." Whether mainstays of a "liberal monopoly" or not, those who run academic institutions have now been given the Supreme Court's go-ahead to advance their own views at the expense of all others...
...Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, who appeared on our cover in 1947, when he and his partner, Composer Richard Rodgers, had five shows, including their musicals Oklahoma! and Allegro, playing on Broadway. (For all his popularity, Hammerstein had a yearly income of $500,000 -- roughly half of Lloyd Webber's present monthly royalties.) We wrote then that Hammerstein's words "carry a gentle insight and a sentimental catch in the throat to millions of people who are only dimly aware of his name." Within a decade, though, such sentimentality had given way to a more hard-edged style. In a 1960 cover...
...time period was given back to the news division. Next week the network will introduce an ambitious new documentary series, 48 Hours. Added to 60 Minutes and West 57th, that will give CBS three full hours of news programming in prime time -- more than any other network present or past...
Practically alone among present-day theater composers, Lloyd Webber repeatedly hits the Top Ten with his songs: I Don't Know How to Love Him from Superstar; Don't Cry for Me, Argentina from Evita; Memory, the instant standard from Cats. Four songs from Phantom have made the British charts. But despite his unique crossover appeal, his scores are far from cheap tunesmithery. In addition to their obvious debt to rock, Superstar, Evita and Cats also bristle with some hair-raising atonal passages, while Phantom's glorious credo, The Music of the Night, contains one of Lloyd Webber's most...
...wonder that investigators periodically ransack the material of Chatterton's brief career. The latest is Briton Peter Ackroyd, 38, biographer of T.S. Eliot and a novelist who specializes in the blending of history and imagination. In Hawksmoor he shuttled between the 18th century and the present. Chatterton ventures deeper ! into the time warp. It unfolds in contemporary England, concludes in the late 1700s and dallies in the Victorian epoch when an artist named Henry Wallis painted a dramatic portrait, now in the Tate Gallery, of the poet as a young corpse. The model for Chatterton was also an apprentice writer...