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...Seated on a leather piano bench, Harrell opened the adagio-moderato movement of Sir Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” with a declamatory broken chord. Harrell—who made his BSO debut in November 1978??favored a smoother, lighter touch to the opening theme, as opposed to the heavily sustained passion of English cellist Jacqueline Du Pré’s definitive 1965 recording of the concerto with the London Symphony...
...Saturday, the Class of 1978??who call themselves “the blizzard brigade”—enjoyed a soiree in a white room decorated with snowflake balloons to commemorate the Great Blizzard...
...They invited minority scholars—including Ogletree, who had graduated from the Law School in 1978??to give lectures based on Bell’s book. The purpose was to demonstrate to the Law School administration that there were sufficient “qualified” minority scholars to choose from...
...General Education offered “a new rationale for general education at Harvard, one that is distinct from the rationale for the present Core curriculum.” The Committee’s report did not call the present Core—required of all Harvard undergraduates since 1978??a bureaucratic monstrosity compromised ever since its inception. Instead, reformers insisted that the Core is a victim of changing times. The draft asserted that today’s Harvard students “will need to make their way in an environment complex in new and incompletely understood...
...Discontent grew larger when the ACSR seemed to renege on its one concession from 1978??that the Corporation would not invest in any banks making loans to the South African government directly—less than a year afterwards, when news emerged that the University had maintained its investments in Manufacturers Hanover trust...