Word: whithering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times's editorial policy continues to reflect the same cosmic concerns as before the strike. WHITHER DEÉTENTE? asks the lead editorial, which never bothers to answer. The editorial page includes the inevitable ode to nature's awesome wonders, titled AUTUMN'S FALL ("Now does the deep-throated maple hush its cheery warble ..."). On the Op-Ed page, Columnist James Rest writes from Balkh, Asia Minor (" 'How are you, Scotty?' asked the Khan, gnawing on a Kurd...
...Many people have of course suggested that the answer to the question 'Whither rock 'n' roll?' is hither. This is nonsense-obviously the answer to whither? is thither...
Other sequences, funny in themselves, seem to come out of nowhere. At one point, Max, exploiting his popularity as a rock critic, lectures a group of rapt girls, who are busily taking notes: "The answer to whither rock is hither. Some people say thither but they're wrong. Their theories are passe." In the film's most outlandish sequence, he engages in a conceptual art battle with a street person, who bangs his fists against a Coke machine, kicks it to the ground and triumphantly labels it "Dead Coke Machine...
...Rosovsky has now raised an issue more complex than he had, perhaps, bargained for. The solution to "Whither the liberal arts education?" is neither black nor white; if it emerges it will do so from a much more nebulous territory where Rosovsky's iron hand packs little clout...
...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...