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Without any declaration of war, this flood of mostly old people, women and children can wreck India's precarious economy. What a splendid bonus to rid yourself of some 5,000,000 unwanted citizens and make your arch enemy, India, pay the price for your "internal" follies...
Composer Kellaway's arch, nervous score does nothing to hide the banality of the original theme, and Balanchine's ensemble choreography is often surprisingly distracted and cluttered. On the other hand, Jo Mielziner's nighttime airline setting is one of the City Ballet's best, and the fanciful costumes by Irene Sharaff might give Braniff a few good ideas. For all its frivolity, PAMTGG does display, once more, Balanchine's uncanny skill at catching the aesthetic potential in America's mass culture and at fusing pop dance with ballet. Slightly dated in its style...
Last week the once furry-faced arch-beatnik appeared before a flock of followers in Berkeley without a beard-and without his old vigor. Denying that he had ever said he would not shave until the Viet Nam War was over, Ginsberg insisted that "it has nothing to do with anything conceptual." Speaking sedately, as befits an elder statesman, even of the counterculture, Poet Ginsberg announced that he was making some recordings: William Blake in an album of mantra chants. "I don't suppose anyone will make any money on it," Ginsberg said resignedly...
...Ninety-Second Congress has become the first in 60 years to reform, even slightly, the rigid seniority system, which concentrates power in the hands of aged, rural, Southern, often arch-conservative members. Common Cause deserves much of the credit for the small victory. Gardner picked the seniority system as one of his targets because he believes that a highly visible evil is less dangerous than an invisible one. The seniority system in Congress is very powerful in an invisible...
Tomorrow's tennis match with Yale will hardly evoke the usual passions of a battle between arch rivals, but it should be a fitting finale for Harvard's very successful season. The Crimson is heavily favored to nail down a tie for second place in the EITA with a victory over the Elis...