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...researcher had second thought about participating in the project: "I am not proud of what seem to be my principal motives-intellectual fascination with a complex and challenging problem...and the well known need in academic circles to publish or perish...
...driving force in the advance of science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...
...artists, and to censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who are serving long sentences in hard-labor colonies for publishing abroad works critical of the government...
Illusion of Paradise. Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, waited until a more conventional age, 53, to publish his first book, a collection of essays on a wide range of topics that he has written over the years for his paper. Consequently, Royster is more reconciled to the aberrations of New York than Willie Morris, and gives some good advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside...
Schuller is also an energetic teacher, lecturer and writer; next April, Oxford University Press will publish the first of two volumes on the history and musical form of jazz. Already a widely played orchestral composer and an innovator of the "third stream" blend between jazz and classical techniques, he has accepted 23 commissions for new works, five of them operas...