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...Victory is within sight! I have reached Au Bon Pain, only yards from Holyoke Center. I listen intently as a freshman recites the entire Arabic alphabet for her enraptured buddies...
...second movement, "Diaspora Dances," is more conventional but no less eclectic. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are given numerical values, which serve as the music's metrical underpinning. The exotic sounds of ancient Palestine mingle with the plaintive songs of the shtetl and the joyous urgency of jazz, encompassing in quick sketches Jewish music through the ages. Only Bernstein would try something like this, and only he could get away with it. Emotionally undisciplined, Jubilee Games is no masterpiece, but it is fresh and powerful, and one of Bernstein's most honest pieces in years...
...Wasp gentility. "It was as though every day had a happy ending. My brother Trajan and I had gold cards giving us the run of Radio City Music Hall. I thought everyone's father was head of a network. Though it made things confusing when I was learning the alphabet -- how did it begin...
...Florida court that Cohn "tried to take (Rosenstiel's) hand for him to sign" the codicil to his will. The lawyer eventually emerged with a document bearing what the New York judges described as "a number of 'squiggly' lines which in no way resemble any letters of the alphabet...
...produced. Much of it is aimed at preschool-age children, who are largely ignored by mass-audience TV. The publishers of Golden Books have begun releasing video versions of their children's stories on 30-minute cassettes. Toys-R-Us, the nationwide toy chain, is now selling the Geoffrey Alphabet Video, which features National Geographic animal footage and original songs by Elizabeth Swados. Preschoolers can exercise and play along with Gymboree, an interactive cassette from Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video. Harried mothers can enliven a youngster's birthday celebration with Rainbow Brite's It's Your Birthday Party, a 45-minute...