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...bright side to the standards. "Fighting Mother Nature is getting to be a serious problem," says Dr. George Blackburn, a renowned nutrition expert at Harvard. "I have a hospital full of anorectics." He advises people who are only a few pounds away from their goals to "relax, adjust to the new range and start having fun. There's no reason to be a size 6 or 8 when a size 10, or even 12 if you're big boned, is healthy." This advice does not go, however, for the large number of Americans who are pushing size...
Clearly, the College's system of guessing course turnout each term and then scrambling to adjust for any errors has all the clarity and precision of a Jackson Pollack canvas. In a great many courses each term, either the classrooms or the teaching staffs prove too small to accommodate the students who show up for the first lectures. The result is by now a biennial ritual: the helter-skelter of relocations and the anxiety of lotteries...
Agencies like HHS are "exploring the possibility" of adopting a system like NSF's, but they want to adjust it to their own peculiar idiosyncrasies, said Stephen R. Williams. He noted that NSF consulted Harvard during its deliberations over its new codes...
...season's opening production of Berlioz's Les Troyens; already three have declined. Assistant Manager Joan Ingpen, who is in charge of artistic administration, pops in to have Levine approve a "cover" for a sick tenor and to vet Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted 40,000 castings arranged over a five-year period," says Levine. "It is a jigsaw puzzle beyond belief." He signs letters and heads into the auditorium for an 11 a.m. rehearsal of Wagner's Tannhäuser...
...Rubinstein onstage was to witness a master in his element. Striding purposefully to the keyboard while acknowledging the welcoming cheers, he would sit down, adjust the tails of his formal coat, tilt his face upward at about a 45° angle and stare intently into the middle distance as he composed himself. Then the great hands would rise from his sides and come down on the keyboard. The piano, with its intricate mechanism of strings and hammers, would cease to be a percussion instrument when Rubinstein caressed it; in his hands, it sang...