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...future history above is representative, but there's more. A lot more. The first interview with a dolphin. The Great Wall of China goes on tour. An excerpt from David Halberstam's next opus. The cancer cure (repeatedly strike the head of baby harp seals of Prince Edward Island and extract the unique harp seal acetylocholine). And, announced on March 29, 1982, the discovery of the scrotal orgasm. Take your time. You get the idea. Fun, light, cute Good to have, but not to buy. I got it free...
...page Anton von Webern (Knopf) is the magnum opus of Scholar and Archivist Hans Moldenhauer, 72, in collaboration with his wife Rosaleen. The Moldenhauers do not set out to interpret Webern's personality or evaluate his music. But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves...
SOME PEOPLE WOULD CALL Robert Shaplen brave. Others would say that he is just plain crazy. Anybody who attempts to summarize 30 years of modern Asian history in a single volume is probably a little of both. A Turning Wheel is Shaplen's magnum opus, an enormous work on his years as a correspondent in Asia. Like any sweeeping work, it has its ups and downs. If Shaplen's book is flawed by the sheer breadth of his topic, it is held together by the author's personal approach. But A Turning Wheel is also a strangely unfulfilling work, copious...
Betty Satterwhite Sutter, head reporter-researcher in TIME'S Nation section, was one of the few staff members with her own copy of the opus-kept, of course, in a locked drawer in a locked room. With assistance from 14 TIME research librarians, she attempted to verify every fact and figure included in the excerpts. Inevitably, some niggling little problems arose. Should the traditional Chinese phrase for "Bottoms up," for example, be transliterated as gam-bei, the dialect version, as it appears in the book? Or should it be ganbei, the Mandarin version? We settled on the latter...
Haydn: String Quartets, Opus 20, Nos. 1-6 (Juilliard Quartet, Columbia; 3 LPs). Propulsive rhythms, a biting attack, hard tonal sheen - these are the qualities listeners have come to expect from the Juilliard, and they are not necessarily the best qualities for Haydn. But the surprise of this set is the mellowness and suppleness, the emotional inwardness of the performances. All to the good, since these are pivotal works. In them the 40-year-old Haydn deepened the content of his lightly ingratiating early quartets, incorporating folk tunes into a more tightly woven texture and often finishing off with...