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Characteristically, the quiet Secretary of State appears too seldom in the papers to be either hurt or helped?although his reluctance to put every hasty thought on paper now looks wise. The Joint Chiefs played their usual strong, if myopic role, continually urging sterner measures, but not with any overblown certainty of victory...
...themselves. One piece, the first of a series on recreation, explains how to improvise active wheelchair games that are not only enjoyable, but good for letting off steam. Another details a system for teaching the use of public transportation. The same article deals forthrightly with a highly sensitive and seldom-mentioned topic: the intermittent and "very human" parental wish "to get rid of or lose their disabled child...
...Seldom have these ingredients been brought together in such perfect balance as in the New York City Ballet's new instant masterpiece, Choreographer Jerome Robbins' The Goldberg Variations. The unspectacular title refers to the music that both inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part...
...interested in making such changes. The 4-to-1 ratio here is hardly an isolated inequity: women are treated as second class at every level of the University. Women hold few major teaching appointments, including only two full professorships; they are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare this year required Harvard to submit a plan to correct discrimination in its employment practices. And when students protested the pay differential between male and female cooks in Radcliffe kitchens, a Radcliffe official explained, "But there's a long tradition...
What European and Third World filmmakers have begun is a re-questioning of the film medium itself, caused by world conditions which U.S. directors have seldom alluded to, and then in oblique fashion...