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...15th is also grandiose and tire some, a big, empty balloon of a symphony. Shostakovich makes all the right orchestral gestures. Snare drums tap away energetically. Muted trumpets wail balefully from some nostalgic never-never land. The first cello sings a sad song. At the proper climactic moments, the strings and brass saw away at each other like legions at war. Yet gesture is just about all there...
...years. His rolls, ruffs and drags were as familiar and indispensable to Mengelberg and Toscanini in their day as to Bernstein and Boulez in theirs. Goodman's departure this week will terminate one of the longest tenures in the history of American symphonic life. As Philharmonic Snare Drummer "Buster" Bailey puts it for the whole orchestra, "It will just never be the same again...
...ball with one hand, and cock and fire from a crouch. Originally Bench was a traditionalist; he caught the ball with his left and covered it with his right. Taking the cue from the older Hundley, Bench switched to a hinged catcher's mitt that enabled him to snare a pitch with one hand and thus keep his right hand free -from harm, as well as to throw more quickly. Then he practiced for hour upon hour transferring the ball swiftly from glove to throwing hand while still in the crouch, always making sure that he grasped the ball...
Thus, George Jackson, if he had not been so before, was undeniably a political prisoner after June of 1969. However, he was also doing some political imprisoning of his own, for his survival caught the prison system in the snare of a Hobson's choice. Released from the joint, Jackson would have presented a substantial challenge to the maintainence of "law and order" on the outside. But retained in custody with his will and spirit unbroken, Jackson presented the same threat to the standing order of the prison system. By example and communication, Jackson could continue to expose the irrationality...
Northern Ireland's Catholics were furious. "There is one issue on which virtually every Catholic, moderate and extremist, antipartition and pro-partition, is united," said a Catholic lawyer in Belfast, "and that is an almost psychopathic revulsion toward internment." In its roundup, however, the army failed to snare many key activists. Some arrests were based on ten-year-old dossiers. Besides, as one I.R.A. leader told TIME Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and John Shaw, many men went into hiding or crossed into the Irish Republic after learning that jail cells in Belfast were being cleared to make room for detainees...