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...Press earlier identified Safran's editor as Aida Donald, but would not now say whether Donald was the acquisitions editor referred to in the dean's report...
This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
Horner will be represented at other Commencement week activities by Chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees Amey A. DeFriez and Associate Dean of Radcliffe College Phillipa Bovet. Bovet will stand on the platform at Thursday's Commencement ceremonies, according to Aida K. Press, spokesman for Radcliffe College...
...Forza Leonora's Pace, pace, mio Dio, it was the heartrending plea of a desperate woman begging God for surcease; when she cried O Scarpia, avanti a Dio! at the end of Tosca, it was a chilling curse delivered at the gates of hell. And when she sang Aida's anguished O patria mia, as she did last week, it was a radiant invocation of pathos...
...will hear me," says Price, summarizing her philosophy. "The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to." She took particular satisfaction from singing with Bass Simon Estes in her farewell Aida: "It makes me feel just wonderful to have this black god standing behind...