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...letters between Kissinger and Senator Jackson spelling out Soviet assurances to let out more would-be emigres "promptly." They perceived the public ventilation of diplomatic dealings -normal in a free society-as an affront to their sovereignty. As a Soviet intellectual in Moscow put it: "Jackson's triumphant statements were a mistake by him and a provocation to us." Besides, by refusing to submit to pressure, the Russians no doubt were hoping to damage the presidential chances of a man whom they regularly denounce as an "infamous cold-warrior...
Whither music? The final, triumphant answer is "yes," by which Bernstein means "tonality." He believes that his preference for tonality is more than a matter of his personal taste, that it is an innate, physical necessity. The very existence of the Viennese school's atonal music, not to mention non-tonal music of other cultures and the pre-tonal music of the Renaissance, argues that tonality is not universal, but Bernstein claims that Schoenberg denied his own inner instincts, and, outrageously, that "Schoenberg to this day has not found his public...
...ROOF. A triumphant revival of the Tennessee Williams play starring Elizabeth Ashley as a sensuous, febrile, scorchingly Southern Maggie...
...agreement does not appear to bar the U.S. from doing what is necessary to correct or compensate for these imbalances. I am disappointed that the accord does not do more to avoid that necessity. Thus I cannot view Vladivostok as a triumphant breakthrough...
Even if Lysistrata's plan works and the women of Greece emerge triumphant, and settle things in their own way, there isn't all that much here for a contemporary supporter of women's rights to get enthusiastic about. A large part of the humor, especially of Leslie Wilson's well-played Lampito, is the humor of bitchiness, and many of the characters (with the possible exception of the statesman-like Lysistrata herself) are portrayed as bargain-hunting matrons. They find it just as difficult to lay off sex as the men do, and it can hardly be said that...