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...music. Modern audiences, points out Italian Composer Luciano Berio. too often regard music "as escape from reality." Because aleatory music is designed to surprise everybody-including the performers and the composer himself-it "gives doubt to the public," making the audience "part of the composition." Cage carried this concept to its illogical conclusion in his 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, in which a pianist sat with a stop watch for four minutes and 33 seconds without playing a note, while the audience provided the "music" in the form of coughs, yawns and sneezes...
...View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details...
...been so all along (the author implies), then armed with this concept he is Nixon reformed, Nixon respectable, Nixon virtuous, Nixon--very nearly--victorious. But he is not really anything of the kind. Still the professional politician of the Douglas days, he speaks to fund-raising dinners, ward banquets, and National Committee Chairmen, but not to the people. Eisenhower (elevated above the people), missions to Venezula and Russia, have brought him no closer to them...
Common Market. The idea does not sit well with some Common Market members; they feel that the whole supranational concept-which may one day lead to Europe's political unity-would be watered down by allowing special terms and treatment for such neutrals as Austria, Sweden, Switzerland or Finland...
...View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details...