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Opera, says Mr. Scruples in Mozart's The Impresario, "occasionally loses skirmishes, but it invariably wins the battle for survival." On the theory that some of the most interesting battles are taking place in that realm known as regional opera, TIME'S music critic William Bender visited St. Paul, Katonah, N. Y., and Ottawa. He encountered imaginative programming, talented young singers, skilled managerial talent and audiences as eager for the untried as the familiar. His report...
...caper have been dusted off with success, screwball comedy was hardly likely to escape. All in the name of homage, Peter Bogdanovich ripped off Bringing Up Baby, called it What's Up Doc? and made himself a hit. Doc also represented Barbra Streisand's initiation into the realm of frenetic comedy...
Even if little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success-and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding. For the first tune, though, that message may concern survival as well as salvation...
...what, by analogy with biological philosophy, might be termed vitalistic knowledge, as opposed to mechanistic knowledge. Even if we take a reductionist approach and assume that vitalistic knowledge is only knowledge which when more fully grasped will assume a mechanistic form, we can still admit that ignoring the vitalistic realm leaves us on a treadmill where no new ideas or even new techniques are available, because only the unknown or imperfectly known can serve as raw material for new knowledge...
...pages of regulations, HEW spelled out antidiscrimination bans under the Education Act of 1972. Carefully choosing its way through a minefield of custom, law and sensibilities in the sexual realm, HEW mapped the reforms that schools will have to make or else risk loss of federal funds and prosecution. The four main areas of change...