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...meaning of the old story, as Director Camus sees it, is that love and death and rebirth, with all their decisive importance for the individual, are mere incidents in the larger process of life. Camus' image of life is the tropical carnival-random, unprincipled, delirious. And the spirit of the carnival, the pulse of life, is expressed in the drums. Before the story begins, the drums begin their swift, intoxicating beat, and after it is done, the drums are beating still. Every song of love is sung against the dull indifference of drums; every victory of death is lost...
...rest of this year, the project will continue on at least two levels. A random sample of 100 members of the Class of 1963 will undergo additional testing; they will be paid for voluntary work this year. As a second program, Dr. Bidwell is interviewing 70 students--20 seniors and juniors, 50 sophomores and freshmen--on an intensive basis...
John Cage: Indeterminacy (Music by David Tudor; Folkways, 2 LPs). In a search for a "new aspect of form," Composer Cage has glued 90 spasmodically rhythmic anecdotes (on such random subjects as a mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
...MANSION (436 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
Harvard Students for Rockefeller sent the questionnaires at random to 410 Faculty members and all House Masters...