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...judged on its own merits. Which is too bad, because the segments that have been completed (six hours so far) reveal a far more subtle, challenging and skillfully woven drama than the advance brouhaha would suggest. Its political implications aside, Amerika is the sort of project that network TV seldom tries and even more seldom achieves: a thought-provoking epic...
...save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom," says an Italian engineer who has spent 17 years in the impoverished African nation...
...issue of commitment. Despite two bequests totaling $250,000 given early in the century by Retailer George A. Hearn for acquiring contemporary American paintings, the Met did not have an active department of contemporary art until Henry Geldzahler joined it as / curator in 1967; and even then it was seldom in real competition with either MOMA or the Whitney...
Says Managing Editor Jason McManus: "Americans are arguing the shoulds and should-nots of issues as seldom before. In part, this is because our society and our technology have so increased the range of what is possible, whether it is prolonging life or profiting illicitly in the stock market. In some cases, ancient moral precepts address the problem; in others, wholly new ethical concepts may need to be forged. The new section will report on these vital moral struggles...
...course, a dream assignment; seldom is there so probable a guarantee of a measure of immortality for one's prose. Says Rosenblatt: "The more I thought of the audience, the more fascinated I grew. Here I was writing to people not yet born, who would feel so much older than us and look back on us as museum exhibits. How could I tell them how alive we are?" We think you will find it lively reading and a memorable, moving meditation on our times...