Word: underworlders
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...iron a hold over my life, then it's usually time to get a little "irrational" and break their grip. In short, I don't worship "reason" any more than I go out and prostrate myself before the MBTA subway because it transports me as efficiently through the Massachusetts underworld as "reason" does through the academic-intellectual jungle. Indeed, they both tend to break down with alarming frequency, and are probably not to be trusted too faithfully...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Hawaii Five-O. The old Hawaiian Eye private-detective series of a few seasons back is reborn with a new title and a new star (Jack Lord). In the two-hour opening installment, our gumshoe uncovers an underworld plot to wreck the U.S. intelligence system in the Pacific. Next week an hour-long episode picks up the series in another time slot. Premiere...
...Second Concerto proves how well he has succeeded. Compounded of powerful short phrases, punchy accents and a kaleidoscopic array of rhythms, it motors through three movements and 22 minutes like an Orpheus in the underworld. The brilliant dialogue achieved by American Pianist Gary Graffman and Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony showed that the trip was definitely worth the effort. "The simple fact," said Graffman, "is that Ben has written a major piano concerto, which extremely few people have done in the second half of the 20th century." With their hearty applause, Boston's audience agreed...
Mephistopheles (played by Andrea Teuber '64) begs Faustus to stay away from the underworld, but Mephistopheles is such a stoic sufferer that he doesn't succeed in convincing Faustus that hell is really that awful. He does convince us, however, provided we can believe that someone could keep so quiet about his misery...
...federal law has required gamblers to register with the Internal Revenue Service, buy a $50 gambling-tax stamp, and pay a 10% excise tax on their annual gross bets. Another law, passed in 1934, called for the taxation and registration of the manufacture, transfer or possession of such underworld weapons as sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Last week, in the latest of several decisions extending the protection of the Fifth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the two laws on grounds that they require persons to give information to the Government that could eventually be self-incriminating...