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...commentary on the pieces: and the rambling result is often less than illuminating. Debussy's Jeux was the most complex work presented: and, as Pierre Boulez, who 'discovered' the work, lucidly notes. "Jeux marks the advent of a musical form which, instantly renewing itself, involves no less instantaneous mode of listening." Thomas excerpted several logical examples in attempting to facilitate the comprehension of this difficult genre of continuous musical development: but they were quite short, weakly described, and besides, the orchestra got lost in one of them. My impression that this particular 'dissection' had little meaning for anyone not acquainted...
...decay of the socalled International Style. That system of curtain-wall, frame-and-fill architecture came to America from the Bauhaus, and has dominated the nation's cityscapes ever since. But the past decade has not been kind to the International Style. As the last "rational" abstract mode of building, it has been much attacked as unresponsive to human needs. The architect as master planner, exerting in his structures a pressure, both functional and ethical, on the messy, changing lives of their inhabitants, now seems to some critics an elitist figure, and obsolete as well. And certainly much...
Devaluation is becoming the mode. In The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam sees Camelot as an act of hubris created by overconfident young jerry-builders. In the current Harper's, the British journalist Henry Fairlie condemns Camelot as a sort of Washington, D.C., Disneyland that substituted the "politics of expectation" for the politics of performance. Just when the veneer is cracking and the gilt peeling, two members of Kennedy's "Irish Mafia," Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, have come along with their ghostwriter, Joe McCarthy, to add another bestselling chorus to the Camelot legend...
...sake of that greater economics and social rationalization that is narrowing function of the churches to the point of non-existence. Of course, universities "are socially created and serve social purposes," but to serve more slavishly the purpose of a decaying society spiritual impotence and institutional extinction. Harvard's mode of instruction may be outdated; its sexist and elitist values are outdated. The answer is to develop a broader undergraduate experience more is keeping with the complexity and instability of American life, not a more specialized experience within a narrow by defined academic realm...
...adventure of a soul among masterpieces," but the modern reader resembles more a nervous intruder, moving among volumes which once belonged in the world, and which have since become commodities. Books, of course, are still produced and distributed, more than ever before. Like all commodities, these objects reflect the mode of production which in turn determines their character. Thus, more books are published than the market is able to sustain: these become obsolete soon after their emergence; some of them are written to supply a demand which has itself been created: and literature, which excludes these conditions, circulates among...