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...individuals concerned about the deeper relations of the university to society, however, we also have political objections to the presence on campus of ROTC. In any circumstance, the presence of an avowedly militaristic organization is prima facie an affront to the university. Given the current theory and practice of American foreign policy, it seems likely that one primary use of American military officers will be to prosecute more Vietnams and Dominican Republics. In this light, the militarism of the ROTC is particularly noxious. Furthermore, the ROTC, by furnishing preferential rank to college graduates, intensifies an undemocratic situation which already confronts...
SHCHEDRIN: THE CARMEN BALLET (Melo-diya/Angel). Rodion Shchedrin, 35, the current Establishment favorite of Russia's younger generation of composers, wrote this ballet for his beautiful wife Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina. Hearing the Toreador Song and the Changing of the Guard freely arranged for strings and 47 percussion instruments is pleasant for the first time, but no more. Shchedrin mistakes brashness for cleverness so often that familiarity with his work breeds boredom...
...Productions (The Making of the President, 1960 and 1964; the Jacques Cousteau series) agreed to gamble on Holden with a series of perhaps nine African documentaries. After he outlined his intentions and explained the terrain, Producer David Seltzer concluded that U.S. cameramen were out of the question ("Those American prima donnas would have been on strike an hour after they got here"). Seltzer recruited a Dutch crew and 21 African assistants. The expedition could have saved thousands of dollars and two weeks' time by flying directly into the lake from Nairobi. But Holden and Seltzer ruled that...
...first novel since By Love Possessed (TIME cover, Sept. 2, 1957), has attempted to write a severe anti-novel. Not surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner, but on the basis of his own secretly harbored prima facie evidence he wonders if he just might not be a loser after all. A successful management consultant of "sixty odd," Worthington decides with metaphorical directness to examine the management -and meaning-of his own life. His method, however, is indirect and discursive, dicey and erratic...
Violinist Alexander Schneider is no dazzling virtuoso. "After I first heard Heifetz, I cried for a week," he says. Nor, when he conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second...