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...terms. Nonetheless, it does have to draw from the same pool of musicians and attempt to attract the same audience, and is constantly struggling to maintain itself alongside the more prestigious HRO. When the HRO is up, the BSO is down and vice versa. Since the advent of James Yannatos as conductor of the HRO, the Bach Society has had to play underdog...
Long is not the only one shocked by the growing arsenal of electronic devices designed to eavesdrop on their most personal affairs. The advent of the transistor marked the end of the Fourth Amendment's protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Electronic bugging has become so widespread that Congressman Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.) says nobody in Washington can be certain his telephones are private...
...advent of Spring and the Reading Period offers your readers a bit of Hope and Leisure (?), both of which might well be used to try to maximize our chances of survival by expressing individual views on Vietnam. Here are my own, as one example: 1) The administration's program of escalated bombing of North Vietnam, rather than force Hanoi to negotiate on terms we like, is more likely to bring China into the war. The escalation program seems highly unrealistic in its psychological assumptions. It is apparently based on the belief that our bombing can somehow break the will...
...open debate, covered matter-of-factly by the press, was further proof of the worldwide turnabout in attitudes toward birth control since the advent of oral contraceptives (TIME cover, April 7). In the past few weeks, newspapers and magazines have been filled with news of family planning, population control and the pill...
This criticism seemed even more valid with the advent of photography's "instantaneous" portraiture. Photographs, unlike paintings, were not an integrated synthesis of many observations. Etienne Carjat's photographs of Charles Baudelaire and Giocchino Rossini in the Fogg Exhibition show that by 1865 pictures could come quite close to technical perfection...