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...Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe offers a 399 page world of chaos from Sanskrit to Seismology, and the Administration decrees that students may only use four or five courses to build an ordered shelter against the whirlwind. Yet what is order but a dry formalistic structure without vibrant content, without pulsating life...
SPAIN has the most satisfying pavilion of all: a well-wrought building where cool, shadowy interiors lead to bright, fountained courtyards, an art gallery where Goya and Velásquez hang cheek by jowl with Miró and Picasso. With a stageful of vibrant flamenco gypsies and a choice of fine restaurants touting "eels from the River Tagus" and "mushrooms from the caves of Segovia," Spain outclasses most other foreign and state pavilions, many of which offer nothing more remarkable than displays of consumer goods and models of jute mills...
SPAIN has the most satisfying pavilion of all: a well-wrought building where cool, shadowy interiors lead to bright, fountained courtyards, an art gallery where Goya and Velázquez hang cheek by jowl with Miró and Picasso. With a stageful of vibrant flamenco gypsies and a choice of fine restaurants touting "eels from the River Tagus" and "mushrooms from the caves of Segovia," Spain outclasses most other foreign and state pavilions, many of which offer nothing more remarkable than displays of consumer goods and models of jute mills...
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating, well-researched historical novel, yet it remains oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman Emperor whose turbulent 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between Hellenism and early Christianity...
...celebrating Mozart's vibrant characters, Brophy, as always, goes full blast. Conventional worshipers of Mozart's "classicism" will be badly singed. Don Giovanni, she insists, is Mozart's Hamlet, written in profound relief and guilt shortly after his father's death. Indeed, Papa Mozart had trained his genius son from babyhood in every musical skill known to his cramped, parochial mind, then hovered over the outcome as possessively as a mother hen. On his final release from father, Mozart wrote his own saga of the father-murderer to whom seduction is a duty...