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...Code. But the book is less an ex pose than a primer on how a government goes about collecting information that other powers want to keep hidden. The key operative, known as a "case officer," is given the authority and funds to build up the necessary network of agents, cutouts, line crossers, drops and cover organizations. His assignment can generally be classified as either "clandestine" or "covert." A clandestine operation (the Bay of Pigs invasion, Russia's secret installation of missiles in Cuba) is one that is recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk...
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Columbia) is an excited reading of the seldom-heard work of the late Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Nielsen's melodious, strongly rhythmed music sounds like a primer to Shostakovich, and Bernstein makes the most of all its frenzied drama. It is, above all, a showcase for the Philharmonic's superb percussionists...
...exhibition in phrases so extravagant that it hardly seemed possible that the show would live up to his claims. "This glorious affair," he wrote, "is coming off at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Don't miss it. If you still belong to the respectable old first primer class in art, you will see there stranger things than you ever dreamed were on land or sea-and you'll hear a battle cry of freedom without any soft pedal...
...going to write a primer for my four-year-old, who writes phonetically (fonetik-ly). It's going to be called At the Barnyard and have sentences like "You should buff the rough wood on the plough now," and "After the calf laughs the fey jay neighs...
Henny Wenkart, who has two smaller children and is working toward her Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard, learned about reading techniques and decided to write and illustrate her own primer. Since Jonny knew letter sounds, she converted them to sentences of readily decoded words, for example, "O, I am so ill." Since vowels make so many sounds, she focused first on consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short...