It is not difficult to discover several Infelicities Du Jour by simply glancing at the morning newspapers. The Met has gone mad. Soprano Karita Mattila in a pose suitable for an orgiastic scene in an Eszterhas movie. Oh well at least Symposia knew it in its grand and decorous days when voices were more important than......cannot even bring oneself to write the ubiquitous three letter word........with the non-buffoonish Robert Merrill, Risa Stevens, Renata Tibaldi and the dusty old props.

The Advanced Institute's Freeman Dyson in a tepid exploration of the paranormal in NYR of Books. Sir Roger Penrose is the greatest mathematical physicist of our time and Symposia recommends his bolder observations on the subject.

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