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Finally there was the horror implicit in Mrs. Kasabian's account of a random search for murder victims who still do not know how close they came to death. Before Manson finally settled on the LaBiancas, she said, he and his followers had taken a long, circuitous drive around Los Angeles seeking victims. At one small house the sight of chil dren's pictures made him turn away; a locked door on a church may have saved a clergyman...
...volunteer arrived on an island in the Far East and within hours found herself unable to breathe, eat or drink; she was shipped right back home. Yet culture shock is mild by comparison with what Alvin Toffler, a scholar and former FORTUNE editor, identifies in a striking new book (Random House; $8.95) as Future Shock. The term, likely to become part of the American language, is defined by Toffler as "the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow...
GEORGE MEREDITH AND ENGLISH COMEDY by V.S. Pritchett. 123 pages. Random House...
...structure, but tears it down again as I have mentioned, almost as if there were something immoral about well-ordered music. While the piece itself might be very pleasing as an example of the new music, the composer goes out of his way to make it displeasing. The senseless, random posturing of the percussionist as he goes about the stage, beating on a steel pipe, and on the piano's strings and sounding board, as well as anything else which comes to hand, make the listener take the work less than seriously, and obscures its spontaneous musical value...
...final work on the program was Terry Riley's In C. It consists of fifty-three musical figures played by any number of instruments in random configuration while a pianist repeatedly and rapidly plays eight notes on high C and C'". By Foss's definition, it is not a piece of music, but "Like a sky with clouds. You look up, and think you see everything, but then you look up a few minutes later and everything is changed." The piece has a kind of hypnotic fascination; still I would tend to agree with Foss that...