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...been necessary to hire outsiders to supplement kibbutz manpower. That practice is considered socially destructive by some kibbutzniks because it sets salaried workers apart from members, who are given the necessities of life without being paid in money. "Something happens when we become managers and employ workers," admits David Tal, economic administrator of Kibbutz Givat Brenner. "With only members in factories, work is based on cooperation and faith. The motivation is different when you pay salaries...
When is a symphony not a symphony? Well, for one, when it does not adhere to a customary, specific form. Such was the case of Israel composer Joseph Tal's Symphony No. 2. one of three works performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. In a refreshing and varied program. Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Musical Director, also presented Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2. and the Symphony' No. 1 in D Major by Gustav Mahler...
Opening the program was Tal's Symphony, written in 1960. Not actually a "symphony" in the classical sense, it is, in the composer's own words, a "combination of sounds," utilizing the 12-note chromatic scale. Thus, instead of the usual four movements, or sections. Tal uses a different formal structure: There is a main group, which is eventually repeated twice--in varied version--throughout the work. Filling the gaps between these main sections are different episodes, which contrast with each other, and guide the way for what follows...
...Finger drumming on the table is a despicable ploy, and as a distracting gambit it is forbidden in formal play. So are humming and singing. But there are subtler, quieter ways of psyching. Many players have been accused of trying to hypnotize opponents. Former World Champion Mikhail Tal has been credited with a "laserlike gaze," and Bobby Fischer with a "strange magnetic influence"-long before the ludicrous Russian charge last week that the Americans had installed brain-boggling electronics in Reykjavik...
...Some of Lasker's victims claimed in turn that the champion stunned them with his foul-smelling cigars. World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik( 1948-57,1958-60, 1961-63) used to train for a match by having an aide blow smoke in his eyes. Matched against the U.S.S.R.'s Mikhail Tal, a former world champion (1960-61) who has been accused of trying to hypnotize rivals with his laserlike gaze, U.S. Grand Master Pal Benko wore sunglasses throughout the game. Says U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne: "In chess I follow one rule: Don't trust anyone...