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Murky Stories. Television men have been kicking these ideas around for a couple of years, but it is only recently that a network official decided to take McLuhan on. Writing in the current issue of Television Quarterly, CBS Public Information Vice President Charles Steinberg, a Ph.D. specializing in communications, called McLuhanism "an amalgam of camp and voodoo," "semantic nonsense," and an "alienation of humanism." And besides, he added, it flies in the face of "conventional wisdom...
Handsome Payoff. Since the present curator, William N. Eisendrath, 64, moved the collection into its zippy new $650,000 Steinberg Hall gallery in 1960, he has added still more modern paintings, including Sam Francis' flamboyant Arcueil and Roberto Matta's perkily prismatic Abstraction (see color opposite). There are also other, more familiar works, such as a Jackson Pollock that was bought in 1953 for $3,000 and is now insured...
...Crash (Indianapolis 500). All this has paid off handsomely. Enrollment in Washington's art courses has tripled since 1957; gallery attendance has risen too. And Washington is also providing adults in the community with a stimulating alternative to the more orthodox St. Louis City Art Museum. Steinberg Hall plays host to three or four major traveling exhibitions a year, and one of them, an Alexander Calder exhibit, recently pulled 40,000 visitors -30,000 of them from off the campus...
...nerves." The Angst, as well as the questing spirit of Mahler's music, no doubt explains its special meaning for today's college-age youth, who are among the biggest buyers of Mahler recordings, and who made up about 40% of the Vienna Festival audience. As Conductor Steinberg puts it: "Mahler was a high-strung genius who speaks today to a high-strung generation...
Mahler, born in 1860, was one of the last great Romantics. Because of the way he transformed the symphonic tradition extending from Mozart to Anton Bruckner, he was also, in Steinberg's words, "the father of contemporary music-the forerunner of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern." Yet no composer was ever less interested in the objective development of musical form as such. For Mahler, composing was a highly subjective process of grappling with the deepest, most painful questions of life. "The creative act and actual experience," he said, are "one and the same...