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...cycle in which each shooting spawns the next. Last week three sixth-grade boys were apprehended in St. Charles, Mo., for planning an attack on their school, apparently inspired by the Jonesboro incident. "In the past 10 years, we've seen a lot more real violence on television," says Aletha Huston, a professor of child development at the University of Texas at Austin. "It can feed the fantasies of disturbed adolescents...
BORN: July 7, 1955, Jasper EDUCATION: Samford U, B.S., 1976; Birmingham U., J.D., 1982 FAMILY: Wife, Aletha RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Attorney POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama Senate, 1991-94 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2088, Jasper...
Orff's Carmina consists of settings of two dozen medieval Latin and German poems on the subjects of fate, spring, drinking, gambling, and love. All the performers summoned plenty of vitality, and there was fine solo singing by Aletha Munro, soprano; Robert Patterson, bass; and Charles A. Campbell, tenor. The audience was wild in its approval. Personally, however, I found that this work does not wear well at all. It is monotonous, and its unvaried strophic repetitions soon become tiring. Only in the short, lyrical "In Trutina" (No. 21), for soprano solo, did Orff touch greatness...
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