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During the Middle Ages, the ancient sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...Opera Company of Boston. With it, an experimental tradition begun by Schoenberg, continued by Alban Berg and refined by avant-gardists of Germany's Darmstadt school of composers in the 1950s comes to a dead end. In fact, that tradition expires in a spectacular artistic auto-da-fé symbolized by the holocaust that is the opera's final scene...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
...military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just as it won all the others. Yorktown, Midway, Normandy, Da Nang--they're all the same. But this argument, implicit in the documentary and explicit in the statements of Ronald Reagan and others, reflects a dangerous tendency both then...
...most part, the stable, ethnic families who live in New York's outer boroughs--the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For years, this represented a solid constituency, and the News served it well, with pungent, readable prose, catchy headlines and cranky, right-wing editorials. And the public responded; "Da Nooz," as it is popularly known, achieved the largest circulation of any paper in American history, selling 2.3 million copies everyday...