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...order for new troop-transport planes shot out of the E Ring like a bullet. Publicly McNamara stumbled only once-and that was to his credit. In early February he casually told Washington newsmen that he did not think that the U.S. stood in any danger from a missile gap. Since the missile gap had been a standard item of the Democratic attack on the Eisenhower Administration, Republicans made the most of Administration discomfiture. McNamara himself went quietly back to his work...
Closing the Tourist Gap...
Your article on enticing tourists to this country was immediately sent to my mother in Denmark, who this summer will be making her sixth contribution to the tourist-gap cause. She is a devotee of the drugstore, which to her is a most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate...
Even in German, Brecht plays far better than he reads, and in translation, the language gap cannot be closed. Brecht fashioned such a personal idiom in German that his language has been called "a function of the body." The present translations need more body English. Even so, the volume is an excellent introduction to Brecht's restlessly animated evocation of life, in which his puppets-numberless versions of Everyman-dance to the Threepenny tune of Jonathan Peachum...
What's more, enlargement of the musical audience has further complicated the conflict between radical and conservative by superimposing upon it the polarization of the popular and the esoteric. Because this new audience has a sizable influence in what is played and recorded, music must lessen the gap between the listener and the innovating composer. But if a musicians wishes to devote even part of his time to this endeavor, he must either abandon extensive experimentation or else lead a schizophrenic musical life in pursuing two lines of composition, "functional" and "absolute...