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...tour, the Moiseyev brought P.S.: Surprise Encore!, an exaggerated effort to satirize American rock 'n' rollers. That work's time has passed, but the impulse that inspired it remains. In Bald Mountain, Mussorgsky's music is suddenly interrupted by a prolonged cadenza of what can only be called socialist jazz jungle drumming. Pairs of pig-snouted satyrs and lissome succubi writhe lustily as syncopated kettledrums accompany an orgy of things that go bump and grind in the night. The outburst is as unexpected as it is finally gratuitous. But after an evening of demure wholesomeness, it makes a welcome, rowdy...
...Tokyo press, she is the Japanese Thatcher. To the Japan Socialist Party, the country's largest opposition force, she is simply the leader. Takako Doi, 57, gained that role last week when the Socialists elected her party chairman. A seven-term member of the Diet, or national parliament, Doi became the first Japanese woman to head a major political party...
...must now rebuild a crippled opposition. The Socialists suffered a major setback in July, when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's ruling Liberal Democrats won a historic 59% of the seats in the lower house of the Diet. For his part, Nakasone seemed to relish the prospect of facing a female Socialist leader. Said he: "I am a feminist, so I would treat her very nicely...
...commitment among undergraduates. Though virtually no one wants to go back to the bad old days of the tumultuous 1960s, morally concerned faculty and students deplore the cautious, somewhat self-centered mind-set that seems to have invaded the campus. However, Senior D. Joseph Menn of Los Angeles, a socialist, makes the point, "There's been too much made of apathy. A better word is disillusionment. People have to worry more about paying off student loans when they get out and competing in a tougher job market...
Like most of the wealthy, Republican eastern seaboard Harvard constituency, he opposed Roosevelt's policies of reform, viewing tham as a product of the taboo socialist left. Retired due to failing health, but still very active within the University, Lowell was the figurehead around whom those who diasgreed with Conant's reforms grouped themselves. Conservative alumni angered by Conant's "dilution" of the College's population responded by decreasing the amounts of their much needed contributions...