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...continues. "The problem is that they don't really stop and consider how much they could be teaching, given the resources of an enormous university. There is very little questioning about why people play--about what music is and how it relates to other arts. This is much sadder and more serious than the fact that the building closes...
...sadder and more significant malpractice case will go to trial in California some time this year. The targets are the Rev. John MacArthur, 41, and his staff at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. The nondenominational evangelical church is the largest in Los Angeles County (20,000 members). MacArthur and his colleagues were counseling a troubled church member, Ken Nally. Eventually the young man killed himself in April 1979. His Roman Catholic parents sued, charging that the clergy "discouraged and prevented" their son from seeking professional psychological counseling. MacArthur attempted to get the case dismissed, claiming that the suit violated...
...earth. Instead, the world takes them to its heart, which brings us back to the why. Perhaps because we find them sad, the way a huge child can be sad-frightening because of its unnatural size, but essentially sad nonetheless. It is not that the rich are any sadder than the rest of us, of course, but that they are so surprised at finding themselves sad at all. It is not that they are any more bored than the rest of us, either, but that they go to so much trouble to avoid being...
...Dolby Stereo, often as unintelligible) as those of The Deer Hunter, but without the Viet Nam film's claim of political significance. With its repetitions and ellipses, Heaven's Gate resembles random sequences from some lost eight-hour masterwork. As of this week, though, it is something sadder: a four-hour fiasco...
Even if Puccini had written the score, it would be hard to imagine sadder sounds emanating from the Metropolitan Opera. First the Met postponed its season premiere, a performance of Turandot, because of contract disputes with its unions. Then last week, the Met's management officially canceled the 1980-81 season. Though the decision was not irrevocable, every day the impasse continued made it more likely that the U.S.'s greatest opera company would find a year erased from its history...