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Last week the Met's board chairman George A. Sloan sent a gloomy letter to 7,000 season-ticket subscribers. Wrote he: "We would render a greater public service if we refuse to give opera [this winter] rather than surrender to the union the right of management to determine the number and professional competence of singing artists...
...well-nigh impossible task. Forecasting the "long-run" effects of any policy calls for the talents of a Nostrodamus far more than for the skills of a social scientist. The awe-inspiring speed of twentieth-century technological change, and the sweeping alterations which it makes in social structure, render any long-range prognostication a risky business at best...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...
Life Principle. Nevertheless, says Park, Unitarians cannot use the Creed without "a number of interlineations which render it grotesque for purposes of worship." Grotesque sample...
...intimate friendship and companionship between man and woman. ... I may say that my wife and I tasted the real bliss of married life when we renounced sexual contact and that in the heyday of youth. It was then that our companionship blossomed and both of us were enabled to render real service to India and to humanity in general...