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...Familiar Terrain. "It's an old-hat drama," Playwright Otto Jefferson Gibson says diffidently. In an eerily contemporary sense, he is right. In Later, Jason the generation gap between father and son is aggravated by the son's serious involvement with drugs. The son cannot pay the pusher who supplies him. Finally the son murders the pusher and is sentenced to life in prison. Jason's terrain is familiar; what is special about the play is that it is hardly an academic exercise. In this case, art imitates life with unsettling directness. At times the actors move...
...anarchy that is the Parisian orchestra. Symphonic life in Paris has almost always been a laughing matter for the rest of the world. Underfinanced, undertalented and underrehearsed, the city's three major, privately backed, week-to-week orchestras (Lamoureux, Colonne and Pasdeloup) slog through their Sunday afternoon old-hat concerts with all the esprit de corpse of Napoleon's army after Moscow. Parisian conservatories turn out some of the best instrumentalists in the world, but they have very little incentive to remain at home. Arturo Toscanini once remarked that France could have the best orchestra in the world...
Though it is still in the stage of wind-tunnel studies and drawing-board proposals, the much-heralded U.S. supersonic transport, which is scheduled to carry 150 passengers at speeds up to 1,900 m.p.h. by 1974, is already old-hat to some aeronautical engineers. They are working on a new and swifter generation of jets that will streak into the still unexplored speed range between the Air Force X-15's record 4,104 m.p.h. and the 17,500-m.p.h. velocities of orbiting space capsules. Designed for the near future, these scramjets (supersonic combustion ramjets) will be powered...
Consciousness-expanding drugs though they by now are old-hat and clearly must be consigned to the basic foundation of College scandals, in 1963 were only beginning to intrude upon the consciousness of college officials. But intrude they did, and in May President Pusey fired Timothy Leary and his colleague Richard Alpert for giving drugs to an undergraduate after the two experimenters had explicitly guaranteed the University they would not use College students in their experiments...
...President of the U.S. received his Washington rearing under the New and Fair Deals, not the New Frontier-and he counts among his most valued advisers some who have been considered rather old-hat during the past three years...