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...promised that the new auditorium will do away with the old labels for different-priced seats. Balconies will be called terraces, and loge seats will replace the traditional boxes. The loge seats, however, "will be more generously spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality and deflect the lights to suit the mood of the music (an alarming prospect for people who do not particularly want to hear Bach in the dusk...
...American today is told without pause that the world is up to him?war or peace, prosperity or famine, the welfare or literacy of the last, remotest Congolese, Tibetan or Laotian. And he is facing his demanding destiny in a state of psychological and religious confusion...
...quality of the Nigerian press is good. Despite a national literacy rate of only about 15%, the country prints 20 daily newspapers and 36 weeklies, with a circulation approaching 755,000. Copies of the leading dailies, going out by motor lorry and dugout canoe, eventually reach even the remotest regions-a much-needed unifying influence on Nigeria's mosaic of 250 tribes. And by being free itself, under the long years of benevolent British tutelage, the nation's press has taught Nigerians valuable first lessons in the meaning and the duties of freedom...
...remotest villages of the Marches there was often nothing to eat but hard bread, onions and anchovies, but every morning I awoke to a glamorous adventure, tasted the freshness of a spring or autumn morning in the Bergamesque valley as if it were a deliciously inviting draught. Each alterpiece in its place in the cool or warm but penumbral light of a church I enjoyed like the satisfaction of a vow, and it remained fixed in memory as a crystalline individuality... Its overtones lingered in recollection and its taste on the palate...
...program is one of the virtually insoluble problems of General Education. The most important difficulty--that there is not the remotest agreement on what, correctly speaking, ought to be taught, is one which is coming into other areas, as the personnel problem has. While the rest of General Education has been received with general approval over the last decade, Nat Sci has not. One of its founders admitted last spring that the program as it stood was a failure...