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...researchers. The craggy face of an old rabbi named Abraham Rezmovitz glares out from under a wide-brimmed hat in an account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with a stick if they failed in their recitations. But he was also fearless: once leaping into a whirlpool on the River Tisza in his flowing black caftan to rescue a drowning child. On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract...
...Andor I. Meszaros '02, who lives in Randolph, said he could smell the gas for at least half an hour before HUPD arrived to evacuate...
...There was an enormous snowballing effect of campuses following after other campuses," says Andor Skotnes, an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley during 1969 and now a historian at Columbia University...
...Pianist Andor Foldes said in his letter [Jan. 18] that using a computer can "negate everything that music stands for." The composer or the performer decides whether or not a musical offering is accepted by the listener. Many people are not moved by a performance made with pieces of wood, bones and bird whistles, but at one time that was considered music when we had nothing else...
...horrified to read your glowing account of Maestro Pierre Boulez's newest "creation" that was recently performed in France [Dec. 28]. Repons is certainly not the answer to this listener's prayer. Compositions made with the aid of a computer negate everything that music stands for. Andor Foldes Herrliberg, Switzerland