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Three years ago, such musical missionary work would have been unthinkable. Now, with the government's blessing, China's musicians are seeking guidance with a hunger and intensity that is daunting. Like everyone else whose work involved the intellect or the arts, the nation's musicians saw their spiritual life erased for ten years by the Gang of Four. From 1966 to 1976 Chinese orchestras were allowed to play only a few granitic compositions; conservatories became inactive...
...visitor in Cessna luxury to and from Honolulu. Henry A. Walker Jr., chairman and president of Amfac, Inc., owners of the resort, is developing a $4 million, seven-acre Hawaiian Sea Village, ressurrecting the islands' ancient arts and crafts. A few miles to the north is Kapalua, whose Bay Hotel opened last October. Operated by Rockresorts, the 196-room hotel has a superb golf course (the 334-yd. 13th green is framed by two beaches); another course is under construction. On the southwest coast is the charming 350-room Wailea Beach Hotel and its two golf courses, which also...
...aura of Virginia City cum Tijuana. Once the playground of Hawaiian royalty, and later in the 19th century a major port for whaling ships and China clippers, the clapboard community has been restored to a state of authentic tackiness. La haina boasts some 30 restaurants and about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran...
Trying to win prestige for his network, Paley even laid siege to the Metropolitan Opera, whose president and chairman, Financier Otto Kahn, was outraged that anyone would want to hear a mezzo-soprano through the static of the air waves. At last Paley persuaded him to come to his office and hear a performance he had piped in. "We heard the overture," he relates, "and several minutes of singing into the first act and still no one reacted. Then Kahn leaped to his feet and exclaimed: 'I can't believe it. It's simply marvelous . . . and just...
...this country, everyone is a cousin of sorts. There are 6,000 Moutons, descendants of a Salvador and Jean Diogène Mouton, whose family tree is more like a woods. And, of course, there is the lazily rounded French patois that holds them all together (and which Rushton might have discussed as a vital ingredient of the culture, instead of relegating it to an appendix...