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...Santa Fe Opera Company, heard explosions in his sleep. "I was dreaming," he recalls, "and I remember thinking it sounded like the fireworks at the end of Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King. Then I realized that couldn't be right and I woke up." Five hundred feet from the ranch house where Schrieber was staying, the company's redwood theater was engulfed in lurid flames. At dawn, all that was left of one of America's hand somest outdoor music facilities was a tangle of charred timbers...
...modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke you up at 7 a.m. There wasn't a switch to turn the blasted thing...
...Often the only sex education many of us teen-agers get is from what our pals tell us or from what we read in The Carpetbaggers. It's about time parents and teachers woke up to their responsibility toward us in this matter...
...hand at captions. It was daylight when I got home and went to sleep. That afternoon, I found an uncut copy of the little magazine in my room. I picked it up and began to turn through its meager 32 pages (including cover). Half an hour later, I woke up to a surprise: what I had been reading wasn't bad at all. In fact, it was quite good. Somehow, it all held together, it made sense, it was interesting...
Burgess defends Wake against the obvious objection that it lacks intelligibility: "A book about a dream would be false if it made everything as clear as daylight. If it woke up and became rational it would no longer be Finnegans Wake." True enough, but a more serious charge is that the dream of H. C. Earwicker does not in fact follow a dream like logic but conforms to the logic imposed upon it by the esthetic, moral and historical theories of James Joyce...