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Lindbergh's feat was technologically progressive; its trajectory pointed into the future. Much of today's adventuring is essentially regressive - men employing ever more primitive modes of transportation. Thor Heyerdahl's crew sailed in the papyrus rafts called Ra I and II to show that ancient Egyptians might have discovered America. His 1947 voyage aboard the Kon Tiki was similarly primitive...
...Ra-Northeastern University Alumni...
...Ra is in this week, presenting an 8 pm concert this Saturday at the Alumni Auditorium on the Northeastern campus in Boston. Sun Ra is really great live, and this is pretty much one of those rare Boston opportunities...
...Italy's Giorgio Strehler, who was responsible for the opening productions of both La Scala and the Paris Opéra, is no ordinary director. When he says the music comes first, he means it. When he uses the phrase no man's land, he means that too; contrasting cases in point are the failure of his Macbeth and the success of his Figaro...
...divorced some years ago) who has a crown of wavy silver hair, Strehler is a familiar figure in Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. He was too busy to come...