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...conservative Waugh. It is the story of a modest publisher's son whose intelligence, ambition and talent lofted him from the bourgeois professional class into the world of the Bright Young People, titled literati and London clubs, where a gentleman might get gloriously or morosely drunk amongst his peers...
...took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have sold "more arms than anyone else in the world...
...great team by any means (its 20 losses by far the most amongst the final eight), the Diabalos entered the Far Western Regionals against powerful USC, the dominant force in modern college baseball (and not without a small impact on the major leagues: Fred Lynn and Bill Lee would certainly come to mind in Boston). The Trojans had inflicted 7-0 and 15-2 poundings on Cal State in their earlier encounters...
...smaller work, Voices, has a completely different spirit to it. It is on a more human scale, five or so feet high, and amongst the forms used to make this "busy" composition (compressed into a base about a foot or so square) are cut-outs remarkably like the cross-sections you see of the human tongue in a biology textbook. It would be easy to see this sculpture as a sort of satire of speech: the forms overlap like conversations do at a cocktail party. And as you walk around the piece it is as hard to decide which angle...
...Band Jazz, whatever happened to it? This Friday it will be at the Kresge Auditorium at MIT. The Harvard Jazz Ensemble and two MIT groups will be amongst the groups playing this 2 hour concert. There'll be swing jazz and contemporary jazz and lots of rock-jazz orientation. Enjoy...