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Abrams was chiefly struck by the fact that the Russian people "are thirsting for information from the free world." They've been living in a vacuum for too long, he said, and are told only what suits the government...
...everything necessary or desirable about opera was said long ago. As an antidote to that tired feeling, Free-Lance writer Sylvia Wright now suggests (in the current issue of High Fidelity) a broad new approach to opera. Author Wright, founder of what may come to be known as the Vacuum School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian...
...caravan of eight vehicles circled to a stop in the morning fog that lay on the floor of the open-pit Minnesota iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...
...research lab for 41 years, and a pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...
...appearance of the names of Alonso and Heliczer may suggest that Audience is attempting not only to fill the i.e. vacuum, but to leech the Advocate, either healing it or killing it by draining away its bloodier contributors. There is not a serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards...