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...Ghost Sonata is a play about the kind of judgments we are likely to make with insufficient knowledge of one another's motives, and, more importantly, with insufficient knowledge of our own intentions. These judgments have nothing to do with any rigid rules of human procedure which the playwright is trying to foist off on us. Rather they involve the immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments by which we decide within ourselves about the character of our fellow human beings. The nature of the Good and Evil on which these judgments are based (either by us or by Strindberg...
...podium, all his movements are clipped and economical. Every muscle is under rigid control. But the moment the music stops, Conductor Igor Markevitch cuts loose. For quick relief from artistic discipline, he unlimbers his tongue. Occasionally his cutting comments have helped cost him a job. "Paris musicians," he announced, "are a Mafia." Markevitch played several variations on the same theme, and was forced to resign from Paris' Lamoureux Orchestra a year ago. Last week, in Tel Aviv, where he appeared as guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, he sounded off at the drop of a question. This time...
...Jews to forget their anger at the wording of America's editorial and think clearly about the substantive issues involved. Whatever their Reform brethren may want, argues Michael Wyschogrod, assistant professor of philosophy at Hunter College, Orthodox Jews should not be so eager to help secularists raise a rigid, unclimbable wall between church or synagogue and state...
...Avoid Wasting Time." An abstemious bachelor, Latourette met these responsibilities by keeping to a rigid work schedule that allowed him precisely one hour a day for walking. Yale legend has it that professors breakfasting at the Divinity School dining room know it is 8 o'clock when Latourette flips his copy of the New York Times to the editorial page. "That is just a myth," he says. "All I try to do is to avoid wasting time...
Options. Gemini astronauts will have many more opportunities to exercise their personal judgment, but only in ways that meet the rigid requirements of space. If a launching seems to be going wrong Gemini astronauts will have the option of ejecting themselves like airplane pilots hitting the silk. In the Mercury program this emergency function is under the contn of automatic instruments...