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...A.S.O. not only succeeded, it took off. What is more, Stoky's striplings are stealing some of the thunder from their big brothers at the New York Philharmonic. The A.S.O.'s world premiere of Charles Ives's fiercely modern Fourth Symphony, for example, was the highlight of the U.S. symphony season last year. In fact, when it comes to championing modern music, Stokowski makes many of the younger conductors look like old fogies. Dissonance for dissonance, the A.S.O. has played a higher proportion of contemporary music than any other major U.S. orchestra...
Poland's Roman Catholic Church has been planning for a decade to solemnly celebrate the nation's conversion to Christendom 1,000 years ago this year. Religious ceremonies are scheduled for many parts of the country, but the highlight will come May 3, the Polish national holiday, when thousands of Poles will journey to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, home of the nationally cherished "Black Madonna." The Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power...
...unspoiled nature. They rent for $2, plus postage and insurance, to a growing audience of garden clubs, schools, Boy Scout groups, Audubon societies and climbing clubs. GOMA also sends out a monthly newsletter plumping for proper woodsmanship, makes members pledge to spread the word personally wherever they go. Highlight of the year, however, comes when GOMA, after soliciting candidates from all across the nation, makes its annual Booster and Buster awards for the best and worst examples of outdoor manners...
...amazing thing is he writes for television. Admittedly the BBC, but nevertheless television. It hasn't harmed Harold Pinter. The techniques he uses in TV plays--single sets, detailed direction in the text, careful use of props a camera can highlight, dialogue better suited to facial expression and subtle bodily movement than to sweeping action--have carried over into his longer plays like The Caretaker to produce a fascinating televisionary theatre...
...there. In the moonlight, the sand looks as white as snow." If the sport exhilarates Californians, it absolutely floors foreigners. Wrote a senior Japanese naval officer after seeing the Las Vegas Strip, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland: "The U.S. is fine, but the dune buggies were fantastic-the highlight of our trip...