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...miles south of Phnom-Penh all the way to the Vietnamese border 71 miles distant. While 1,000 government troops were being helicoptered into the city-joining some 20,000 civilian refugees from the surrounding countryside-Communist forces on the opposite bank of the river kept up a terrifyingly random shelling that killed or maimed hundreds of civilians as well as soldiers...
Engaged. Former New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner, 64; and Phyllis Fraser Cerf, 59, editor, author (The Complete Family Fun Book) and widow of Random House Founder Bennett Cerf. The marriage will be his third, her second. Wagner is a political adviser to New York Governor Hugh Carey, and Cerf is preparing a political and governmental guide to New York as a fund-raising vehicle for Carey...
...Morse Code, and a metronome that, with a few adjustments, clicks out a syncopated beat. Lately, he seems most tickled by a small box he and two undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note to hit next, and how long to hold it. The result is an inoffensive if bland series of electronic tones, reminiscent of belly-dancing one moment and, after flicking a few switches, baroque music the next. It's not great music...
...MONASTIC WORLD, by Christopher Brooke, photographs by Wim Swaan (Random House; 272 pages; $35). Pictorially, this is as exhilarating and artful a presentation of Christian monastic structures as any popular volume ever before assembled. It includes not only such oft-visited sites as Assisi and Mont-Saint-Michel but also monasteries that seem more like eagles' aeries, such as Saint-Martin-du-Canigou in southern France. The text, moreover, is a lucid, sympathetic but judicious treatise on the monastic life and its reverberations in society, written by Medievalist Brooke, a historian at London University...
...make sense for Derek or his v.p.s to drop in on departmental meetings from time to time for the announced intention only of getting to understand the problems better? Should any of our departments be consulting more regularly with parts of the faculty? Is it possible to make random phone calls from time to time to various faculty members just to find out what's on their mind...