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...going on among the Cardinals; incredibly, the New York Times's bestseller list carries his book in the nonfiction category, where it ranks tenth this week. Truth to tell (so to speak), The Final Conclave is a farrago of fact, speculation, misinformation and fiction. In somewhat the same vein, Rader uses silly, intrusive episodes that feature F.D.R. speaking at a revival, and Aimee Semple McPherson blathering in her boudoir, and dots his hero's career with heavyhanded parallels to the life of Billy Graham...
...Bach Society Orchestra appears in its final performance of the season this Saturday, offering a program which is pretty much in the same vein as its three previous concerts this year. Although Bach Soc tends toward Bach and Classical works, it also programs a modicum of nineteenth and twentieth-century pieces. Although Bach, Haydn and Mozart were featured, the pre-Romantic era was hardly the emphasis of the concert programs this year--which included Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Mahler, Wagner, Prokofiev and Kodaly...
Author John H. Davis has discovered in the Guggenheims his own rich vein of biography; his book fails only in the leaden prose. But Davis' unerring eye for anecdotes surmounts most stylistic obstacles and makes The Guggenheims a consistently fascinating saga...
...meaning," "coherence." This is fine and good, but unfortunately no one has reduced the meaning of education or the role education plays in a hierarchical society to a pat, formulaic phrase. In fact, it seems no one has realized that this very question, and other questions in the same vein, are the root of an intense ideological battle being waged throughout the world. It seems reasonable to raise the question: Are Harvard professors--safe and secure with plenty of status and money--so removed from social reality? What makes them so objective? Unless we are willing to concede that...
...cardiac bypass was first developed as a regular procedure in 1967, when only 37 operations were performed. Since then some 300,000 to 400,000 have been carried out in the U.S. alone, and the 1978 total is expected to top 75,000. The operation involves taking lengths of vein from a patient's leg and stitching them to the aorta and to coronary arteries so that blockages are bypassed. The surgery demands the most skillful surgical teamwork, commonly takes as long as five hours and can cost $12,000 or more...