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That annual rite of fall in Manhattan - the convening of the U.N. General Assembly - got off to a celebrity-studded start last week. The undisputed star of the show was Henry Kissinger...
...sponsored an anniversary service for Marilyn in strictly Buddhist style. In the main hall there were the usual representations of the Buddha, curling smoke from incense bars and deep-throated chanting of sutras by a monk with a drinking party later. But there was one variation in the ancient rite: a large still of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch in front of the altar. In that setting, Marilyn's delight might even suggest satori...
...three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible power of Macbeth. Even in an age with less belief in witches than obtained in the Jacobean era, perhaps we must ascribe some of the work...
...Your book review of Suburbia, with photographs by Bill Owens [June 4], really got me. I put aside my TIME, went down to the family room of my suburban bi-level, poured a paper cup of Diet Rite, turned on the color TV, and tried to forget...
DISRUPTIVE DEBATES over University finance and graduate education have become an annual Harvard Spring rite. For the second consecutive Spring, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) instituted a new financial aid policy that met with widespread student hostility, erupting into a strike of about 700 graduate students and scattered undergraduate sympathizers...