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Today "the Beach" is an outcropping of some of the wildest architecture the world has ever seen, strung along nine miles of slim strand that often dwindles to the vanishing point. Miami Beach's famed hotels-there are 368 in all-are fantastically cantilevered, balconied and pictured-windowed confections in concrete. Inside them there is eating and sleeping, eating and talking, and eating and dancing in places with names like the Boom-Boom Room and the Cafe Pompeii. Outside there is eating and tanning around the pool on chaise longues all facing the same way. Rarely does anyone venture...
Even to New York. For East Coast students, San Juan and the Bahamas are big this year, along with Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and the Grand Strand of South Carolina, centered on Myrtle Beach. A discerning set likes Bimini (where they can sleep on the beaches), Guadeloupe and Tobago. By pushing four students into a double room at $15 for all, arranging cheap air flights, and serving free hot dog and barbecue lunches, Bermuda helps a student get by for less than $100 a week...
...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...treat worth the waiting. In five concerts at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall this month, with the accent on works of "special interest" from Bach to Berg, Scherchen displayed an attack that was clean, intense and boldly original. He braked tempos to the creeping point, intertwining each contrapuntal strand with meticulous care, then revved up the fast movements until the musicians were fairly bouncing off their chairs. To critics' charges that some interpretations were flawed by "exaggerations," Scherchen icily replies: "It is very fine if a man knows absolutely how it should be. I don't know...
...hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...