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...that meet, Keefe finished 8th, Brokaw placed 13th, and Campbell took the 16th spot. These runners were among the top 12 finishers, however, when the runners from non-Ivies Navy and Army are discounted...
Peking opera dates back to the 8th century reign of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung, but did not reach its final, refined form until the reign of Emperor Chien Lung (1736 to 1796). The style poses formidable challenges to Western audiences. There is appealing exotica in the pentatonic backgrounds played by such instruments as the two-stringed erh-hu, or alto fiddle, and assorted gongs, clappers, drums and pipes. But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing. Most problematical of all are the symbolic...
Busch-Reisinger Museum: Cambridge Brass Ensemble perform a Tower Concert. Free. Thursday, October 4, 12:00 noon. Harvard Square Theater: "The Unanswered Question", a Charles Eliot Norton Lecture by Leonard Bernstein. Free. Tickets available 2-9:00 p.m. on the 8th, 2-7 p.m. on the 9th, at the Theater. Tuesday, October...
...first unit started the vacation tour with a 6-3 victory at the Country Club of Virginia. They continued on their way south through a tornado and driving rainstorm but the weather turned clear for matches with 16th-ranked Clemson and 8th-ranked Georgia...
Despair. Small wonder then that Gaddafi romanticizes a return to an Islamic purity of the past, or that his call brings forth such emotion from his audiences. He looks back to the 8th century, when Arab power extended from Persia to southern France, and concludes that the Western governments have used Israel to divide and subvert the Arab nation. This kind of romanticism can lead, however, to a new cycle of despair. As Arnold Hottinger, a Swiss expert on Arab affairs, has written, "Radical discontent with the political situation as it is can lead to a fixation on goals incapable...