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...nothing approached Die Frau ohne Schatten. Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto requires a primer course in the mythology of six cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer...
...nearest neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
Even under local control, the selection and creation of books that portray minorities realistically are difficult, delicate matters. The happy primer whose Negro, white and Puerto Rican kids always laugh together can be as misleading as portrayals of the ever-grinning slave. Histories that try to make heroes out of such rightfully obscure Negroes as Sojourner Truth, who was merely one of many Negro campaigners against slavery shortly before the Civil War, lose their credibility. Despite these flaws, the long-overdue drive for balanced books has produced texts that are generally more accurate, realistic and engrossing than those that today...
...A.B.A. itself sponsors a far sounder predecessor of Dacey's primer - a highly sophisticated film, written and narrated for U.S. lawyers by Harvard Law Professor A. James Casner, one of the country's top trust experts. To really beat probate, Casner stresses that the creator must "fund" a revocable living trust with as much as possible of his income-producing property before he dies-the more the better. Setting up such a trust may cost more than probate in lawyers' fees, trustees' fees and stock-transfer taxes. Even so, in many cases the trust can save...
...strategy bears more than a passing resemblance to Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla primer, which is natural, since the game was invented by the Chinese.* As subsequently developed by the Japanese, Go is surrounded by an elaborate code of courtesy. "Sit up straight-do not lounge over the board," goes one stern directive. "Do not blow smoke in your opponent's face," goes another. Players must politely warn opponents of impending capture by saying "Atari," to which the frequent reply is "Komatta na!"-meaning "Oh, what a mess...