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Conductor Schippers and the Met put the lie to that argument last week in a way that demonstrated all over again what grand opera is supposed to be and mean. Mussorgsky's orchestral writing turns out to be stark, but not as bleak as one had been led to believe. His melodic style is roughhewn and at times commonplace, but never without a specific point. What the new Met production revealed above all was that, amazingly enough, Mussorgsky knew exactly what he was doing. He also made fierce demands on the orchestral players, often asking, say, the horns...
Eerie Digs. The dangers that miners face routinely each day would be considered harrowing by most American workers. At the Shoemaker Mine near Benwood, W. Va., for example, a miner's day begins at the bathhouse, a big stark room with showers. Miners' work pants, boots, jackets and gloves are in buckets hung from the high ceiling on ropes that look like stalactites. After changing, the men hang their numbered brass tags on a board at the mine entrance; a tag that is still there after the shift ends alerts the rest of the crew that a miner...
...African agony may be only the first act of a world tragedy. Since 1972, droughts, floods, frosts and runaway fuel and fertilizer prices have wiped out farm surpluses and now threaten the swelling populations of many underdeveloped countries with mass death by famine. To examine that stark prospect, as the United Nations convenes the first global food conference in Rome this week, TIME presents a special report: The World Food Crisis...
...stark evil in this plan quickly flowers into nightmare. Two hoodlums pick up Hicks' trail the moment he arrives in Berkeley. He and Marge escape with the heroin, but when Converse gets home he walks into a trap. The thugs are not, as it happens, emissaries from the underworld but something worse: agents for a corrupt federal officer, bent on picking off the heroin for himself before staging a phony drug bust on Converse and his accomplices. The chase that follows is unforgettable...
Seigel was arrested for disorderly conduct September 27 during a demonstration against war research at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories at MIT. Charges against him in connection with the incident were recently dropped