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GREAT MOMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE by David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin; $11.95 After Sorel's frontal assaults, David Macaulay's Great Moments in Architecture seems gentility itself. But within its spiderweb style, a donnish whimsy examines the excesses of this and other centuries and finds them wanton. Archaeologists uncover the ruins of a rudimentary civilization: a partially excavated fast-food restaurant with the French fries still intact. An inflatable cathedral is invented for tourists who want a distinguished setting at a moment's notice. The secret of the Pyramids is revealed: the ancient Egyptians wanted to sharpen their giant...
Despite its failings, Rachel, Rachel has several unassailable assets. The spiderweb score, written by Jerome Moross with the cooperation of Erik Satie and Robert Schumann, is the best of the year. Estelle Parsons, as Rachel's fellow schoolteacher, and Frank Corsaro, as a friendly neighborhood mortician, extend their roles beyond the boundaries of the movie...
...Outs. To keep tabs on his countrymen, Castro has created a spiderweb of security organizations that reaches all the way down to the neighborhood and block level, where special "people's courts" are set up to try offenders. In school, students are trained to be good spies as well as good Communists. They learn their arithmetic with "socialist distribution" problems, study geography in terms of "friendly" and "enemy" nations, and still learn to chant praises of what Castro had hoped to create in Latin America: "One, two, three Viet Nams...
...internal suspense is fitfully hinted at by an occasional scream in Raskolnikov's mind, a staged hallucination or a spiderweb backdrop. But these are only in use sporadically and with a touch of embarrassment. They neither interfere nor work. Glaser is a skilled actor with a tormented voice and a hauntng face, but he doesn't have the time or the lines to hone the play into form with the tension of mind...
Such is the spiderweb scope and space-age sophistication of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the nation's deep-secret seeker of foreknowledge in the dim, cold demi-world of international intelligence. CIA is America's chief combatant in what Secretary of State Dean Rusk calls "a tough struggle going on in the back alleys all over the world, a never-ending war, and there's no quarter asked and none given...