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...report to the President and Fellows of Harvard College recommending establishment of the School envisioned the building of a "Library enriched with a collection of the most approved authors in anatomy, surgery, physic, chemistry, et cetera--a collection more perfect than any in America, as soon as circumstances will permit." One hundred and eighty-three years later, circumstances have permitted...
...Several years ago, there was a movement to intellectualize "action writing" and Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, et al. This was followed by the effort to intellectualize action and pop painting, which, I guess, is still with us. Now we are in the throes of a movement to lend some sort of credit to beat music. TIME can see no farther than the end of its nose...
...setting could scarcely have been better for his purposes: four Western departments (Vendée, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe), all warmly Gaullist, all heavily Catholic, all refreshingly rural. Sun and showers alternately splashed the meadows as the presidential cortege-a mile-long column of black limousines punctuated by thundering motorcycles-struck sonorously past ranks of poplars and blue-legged gendarmes. In village after village, De Gaulle repeated the tried and true routine: a ritual exchange with the awed mayor, a Lyndon-like lunge into the thicket of outstretched hands, a brief utterance from the bunting-draped platform, then...
DEBUSSY: PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (London; 3 LPs). Ernest Ansermet, conductor of 1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, deftly evokes visions of the Poe-like castle and moon-bright grotto of Debussy's poetic opera. Musically light-textured, the opera is philosophically dark: early death is the destiny of the young lovers, appealingly sung by Dutch Soprano Erna Spoorenberg and French Tenor Camille Maurane...
...hourlong adaptation of the son et lumière technique first developed in France, the North Carolina carries spectators through a dramatized history of its battle-scarred career, from launching to war's end. The production involves 58 stereophonic speakers scattered about the ship and synchronized with 2,000 multicolored lights...