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Brando's prime Appaloosa stallion obviously means more to him than any team of Hollywood scriptwriters ever imagined. In a role that a lesser actor might easily saunter through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto...
...basic problem is that teaching salaries in most public schools are not competitive with jobs in industry and government requiring lesser skills. One Office of Education official estimates that 1,000,000 teachers have been lured away by higher salaries alone. A justifiable desire for higher pay, greater prestige and a stronger voice in their own profession is leading to a new militancy among teachers. School boards and taxpayers can either try to fulfill these desires or prepare for even worse shortages ahead. Within five years, the babies of all those postwar babies will be ready for kindergarten...
Charles de Gaulle arrived in Cambodia last week, touching off a paroxysm of pageantry and adulation that might have humbled a lesser man. As his plane landed, royal guards in gold-threaded tunics and pantaloons stood at the ready with rolls of ceremonial straw matting, in case the exalted visitor decided to sit down on the tarmac...
...premise that there is a sizable audience willing to buy programs first and names second. To reach that audience, they adopt tactics that would horrify conventional concert managers, who like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes." But it was all gravy for Hoffman and Schutz, who sold out the hall even after adding a second...
...apparently rejected the prevailing polytheism of his age and taught that the one true god was Ahura Mazda, who was to be served by self-sacrifice rather than blood sacrifice. Although Ahura Mazda was the supreme lord of creation, his influence over the world was challenged nonetheless by a lesser god of evil, whom Zoroaster's followers later named Ahriman. Caught up in the unending war of these two deities, man was constantly faced with an existential choice of doing good or ill; at the end of his life, his personal balance sheet of good and evil deeds would...