Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christopher S. Jencks, professor of Sociology, spent last year at the University of California at Santa Barbara. While there, he finished a book entitled "Who Gets Ahead," which discusses income distribution and economic success. In addition, he taught two sociology courses, similar to Harvard courses he teaches on social stratification and social theory...
...opera has embraced Webster's gory drama in a big way, with not just one Duchess of Malfi but two. The Santa Fe Opera company, which has presented 20 American and world premieres in its 22 seasons, has just produced the American premiere of The Duchess of Malfi by British Composer and Librettist Stephen Oliver, 28. A second Duchess has simultaneously been staged at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, outside of Washington, D.C., this one a world premiere by American Composer Stephen Douglas Burton, 35, and Librettist-Conductor Christopher Keene, 31. Strikingly different?one discordant, the other...
...Santa Fe's production, performed in the company's handsome redwood and adobe outdoor theater, is squarely in the 20th century tradition. Oliver's opera is a chilling psychodrama, a story of madness and perversion. Instead of a palace, the set is a surreal structure, an external symbol of the brothers' twisted passions. Against this fantastical backdrop, shapes and shadows mingle grotesquely. Soldiers resemble insects in their shiny black armor and luminous round helmets. Members of the court, dressed in garishly striped costumes, are a hideous masquerade, a parody of splendor...
...summer camp calls itself an "experimental lab." The director insists that even swimming is "political." The children put on plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...
What recruiters do not talk about is the sky-high housing costs. Last year the average price of a house was almost $74,000 in the Santa Clara Valley, vs. $43,000 in the nation as a whole. Ted Oliver, an engineer for Sycor in Ann Arbor, Mich., turned down a job with Memorex in the valley because he figured that, despite the handsome pay and perks, "I would have had to accept a lower living standard at double the cost." No doubt many other employees, new and old, are happy out in the valley. But with the nation...