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...writer of the Design section will be TIME Contributor Wolf Von Eckardt, 63, former architecture and design critic of the Washington Post. Ever since fleeing Berlin as a political refugee in 1936, Von Eckardt has been involved with the multifarious aspects of design as a typesetter, graphic designer, critic and author of such books as A Place to Live: The Crisis of the Cities (1968) and Back to the Drawing Board! Planning Livable Cities (1979). Von Eckardt was a recipient of one of the first Ford Foundation grants for writers in the arts, and is the holder of an American...
...Von Eckardt sees the new section as "taking a practical approach to design, to encourage the kind of design that makes the world more livable." Noting the historical discrepancy between the vagaries of elitist taste and what people really want, Von Eckardt believes that "we have a right to say we like this and we don't like that: we must participate more actively in the design of the world around us. The problems of living are not simply engineering problems. It makes sense to solve them artistically." This week Von Eckardt assesses a novel Dutch idea for redesigning...
...Romeo L. von Baumgart-Psayla Dumont...
Wagner: Parsifal (Tenor Peter Hofmann, Bass-Baritone José van Dam, Mezzo Dunja Vejzovic, Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality...
...restricted in its effects, its opponents say, NATO generals might be too quick to use it if the Soviets attacked, thereby causing Moscow to retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. Thus it might become the catalyst for escalating a conventional war into a nuclear confrontation. Says retired General Wolf von Baudissin, who served as chief of NATO's planning staff: "There are already too many new technologies that threaten stability over the next decade. The only solution is to control armaments programs before production starts...