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...gets juicy, they shut the glass door, as when Kathleen Ahern, who teaches chemistry, confided her suspicion that a student has cheated. This brings a buzz of advice from her colleagues, who, despite what the kids think, know when cheating is going on. "We're not stupid," says Mike Abegg...
...break that logjam, two scholars last week issued the first of several unauthorized volumes of the secret scrolls -- cleverly using a computer- generated text. The editors are Professor Ben Zion Wacholder of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Martin G. Abegg Jr., one of his doctoral students. They began with a concordance to the scrolls -- an index that lists each word -- prepared under the auspices of the official team in the 1950s but not made available until 1988. As with a Bible concordance, each word was annotated according to its context and location. A desktop computer was used to piece...
Thus Kissin's Carnegie Hall recital in New York City last month was one of the most eagerly awaited American debuts of the past decade. It proved decisively that the advance word was no mere hype. Schumann's early "Abegg" Variations beguiled with youthful ardor and passion. The same composer's tricky Symphonic Etudes was taken at a daringly slow tempo initially, but Kissin made it work by, in effect, playing the series of challenging variations as if he were inventing the piece as he went along. After intermission, he tamed the ferocious Sixth Sonata by Sergei Prokofiev and concluded...
...Time for Play. A doubly censored look at Japan came from thin, nervous Lilly Abegg, a German newswoman in Tokyo. The Berliner Börsenzeitung recently printed her account of wartime Japan...
...according to Lilly Abegg, the Japanese are not downhearted. On Pearl Harbor Day, Japanese schoolboys tied pieces of white cloth around their heads, imitated samurai warriors going into battle; students paraded, sang in the streets. Wrote Lilly Abegg, perhaps with the Tokyo censor in mind: "One must have seen with his own eyes how Tokyo celebrated ... to realize how strong the war enthusiasm...
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