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...reaches the autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable...
...short, a grownup is a creature very much resembling Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman), whose patient efforts to gain the respect of his son Chris (Matt Dillon) elicit nothing more than a succession of shrugs and silences. What can Dad possibly know about the soul of a lad who wants to be a race-car driver...
...Helsinki accords, signed by Washington and Moscow as well as 33 other nations, committed those nations to "respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief." Often citing this document, Jimmy Carter turned America's concern for individual freedoms into a high-visibility moral crusade. Although Reagan has not been as vocal as Carter in condemning human rights violations, he will not be silent at the negotiating table. After years of stonewalling references to Helsinki's human rights provisions, the Soviets now frequently invoke them when accusing America of abuses, creating a distorted mirror...
Over the next 29 hours, intermediaries shuttled between the two men in an attempt to find a face-saving compromise that might keep the government intact. Finally, Sharon sent a letter to Peres, signed "with great respect," that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making a formal apology. It was apparently enough to persuade Peres to back off. At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, word went out that the shaky union between Peres' left-of-center Labor Party and the rightist Likud bloc, to which Sharon belongs, had survived...
...Your voices are critical to the program’s success, and must be heard, but there may well be decisions made with which you disagree,” Bloom wrote. “If and when this happens, you must respect those decisions and work to implement them...