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Then Kemp sought a very different resolution for her anguish. Charging violation of her right of free speech, she sued the university, in the persons of Leroy Ervin Jr., her remedial-program supervisor, and Virginia Trotter, vice president for academic affairs, who had dismissed Kemp on grounds of insubordination and insufficient scholarly research. Ending a five-week trial, the six-member jury decided on a stunning judgment of $2.5 million to Kemp. Said Trotter, in the understatement of the season: "I was certainly surprised...
...Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They kill our nation. They kill Khmer culture," says the expatriate patriot with great anguish...
...Five Symphonies; Three Overtures. Claudio Abbado conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs or CDs). Imagine the history of 19th century music if Felix Mendelssohn had been the great romantic icon instead of Beethoven. In place of egocentric storms there would be grace and lucidity; instead of anguish there would be serenity and inner peace. The masterpieces produced by such disparate composers as Brahms, Wagner and Mahler % under Beethoven's spell are justly prized, of course, but the romantics could have used a little less irascibility and more agreeability...
Melcher adds that, since he began writing about three weeks ago, he has gotten more confident and the process has become more enjoyable. "At least I can see the beginning of the end now," he say. "Until I started writing, it was more a source of anguish than reward. It's been a constant source of guilt since last March...
judo the tabloid lowprice anguish propaganda and profit form to confront its readers with a rainbow of beauty and words ringing with truth and transcendence...