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This saga of science is a compelling story, and the brilliant, arrogant Oppenheimer is a compelling character-a tragic symbol of one of the most triumphant yet melancholy periods in U.S. history. He would have made an ideal subject for an American TV network, but it is just as well that none of them has told his story, for it is hard to find much fault with this seven-part series from...
...similarities to earlier triumphant trips to Mexico and Poland, there were inescapable differences. The Pontiff looked older and drawn, with an occasional hint of feebleness. And as the cordons of security police mingling with crowds made all too plain, it was impossible to forget the gunfire in St. Peter's Square. Indeed, soon after the trip started, West German police picked up Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination attempt. There was reason for concern near at hand. Nigeria's official news agency reported the arrest of four people...
...will be as if we ourselves were able to witness great Caesar's shock as he reels before the daggers inside the Roman Senate, Columbus' triumphant smile as he spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since...
...speed TGV train for one hour. Traveling salesmen got into the act with a horn-tooting, traffic-jamming demonstration in Paris' Place de la Concorde to demand new benefits, including tax-free gasoline (the current price of $2.77 per gal. includes $1.01 in taxes). Even during a generally triumphant visit to his former constituency in western Burgundy this month, there was an undercurrent of rural dissatisfaction. Said one protest sign along the way: WE WANT TO LIVE, NOT JUST SUBSIST...
...stranger to capitalist success. The premiere in 1952 of his first major opera, Boulevard Solitude, brought him widespread attention. By age 40 he had recorded all five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor of his own music. Last week in Chicago, the composer...