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Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free...
Advancing technology is already providing, and will continue to provide, dozens of other modes and systems of transportation. In fact, in the struggle to keep people moving in the megalopolis, technology is already years ahead of planning and financing, the intersection at which most of the nation's transportation jams occur. What is most needed is some overall planning-partly from Washington but also carried out through state and regional cooperation-that would strive toward creating a balanced transportation system feeding passengers swiftly and smoothly from one mode of travel to another. As it is now, there are practically...
...making sure that the Loeb runs, as he puts it, on a "two-party system" -- that is, for both participants and spectators. In advising the HDC, he tries to see that a balance is struck between educating the students and edifying audiences. When he directs Etherege's Man of Mode next month, it will be both "because it's not the sort of play students would ordinarily do," and because it will permit some of the six or seven hundred people in Harvard's English Department to see what a Restoration comedy looks like...
...structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried out by a separate, non-Curial agency-such as a senate of bishops. Another problem is that the church's courts-from Rome's Rota down to diocesan tribunals-have no real powers to interpret the code...
...Your Soup." Sagan herself has remained a la mode ever since, at 18, she mailed the manuscript of Tristesse to the late publisher Rene Juilliard. He stayed up all night reading, next day offered Sagan 50,000 francs if she would ask her father, a manufacturer of abrasives, for permission to publish it. "I am famous," Francoise announced at dinner that night. "Eat your soup before it gets cold," replied Papa...