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...impetus is neither a desire to play Lady Bountiful nor a shortage of paying summer jobs, but a useful blend of altruism and self-interest. High school seniors yearn to report a substantial entry in that "Civic Work?" blank on college applications; collegians may want to put sociology lectures to practice. The Peace Corps is the model−but most of the jobs to be done are right at home. Says one delighted Boston mother, whose teen-age daughter is toiling in a hospital ward this summer: "She goes charging out of here in the morning like Florence Nightingale riding...
While his followers pray mightily in Hebron church, Moses hangs from a cross on the hill above. After two nights of agony, he dies with the dawn. His despairing last words: "God is white after all ... God is white!" This thickly peopled first novel, an arresting blend of hurt and humor, peasant piety and patriotic gore, goes far beyond the common run of Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple...
...Paul's summer school, called the Advanced Studies Program, is a pioneering blend of noblesse oblige and intelligent economics. For 102 years, the wealthy Episcopal bastion in Concord, N.H., shut tight each summer, sending its boys home for three months. This did not seem right to St. Paul's rector, the Rev. Matthew M. Warren, 54, who thought there must be some way to use those empty classrooms and dormitories. He decided to open them to the best young brains of rural, frugal New Hampshire, where no public high school yet offers Russian, calculus, advanced biology, chemistry...
...Schubert (and here Mr. Boykan was flawless) neared perfection. The blend of clarinet (Felix Viscuglia) and voice (Bethany Beardslee) was a marvel; one wonders, after hearing this piece, why more has not been written for this combination...
...also manages to be both intricate and delicate. The vocal line is continually pulverized and reassembled-hurled at the listener in fragments, sent darting and swooping with almost maniacal power. And behind it much of the time, the brasses chatter, the winds and strings flow and stretch and blend into an uneasy harmony. The sense of unease, in fact, is what gives strength to the score, suggesting not lack of control but a roiling dramatic energy...