Word: arthur
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Defense lawyers say the pad contains no such recipe for killing but just "writing on a piece of paper." They say Levin was facing grand-theft charges for receiving stolen goods, and is probably not dead at all. Says Defense Attorney Arthur Barens: "Mr. Levin has ample reason to absent himself from the proceedings...
...about the origins of AIDS has been getting play in the Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...
...Chamber Symphony (Nonesuch). Americans seem to have show music in their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian...
That warning echoed in the aftermath of last week's election as triumphant Democrats let their hopes rise for a resurgence in national leadership. As if Roosevelt's ghost had sponsored him, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a biographer of F.D.R., showed up in Washington to extol his new book, The Cycles of American History, and offer his own resonant warnings that the "worship of party" could swallow up the purposes. "One wishes that the ^ intellectual energy expended in recent years on procedural reform had been devoted instead to the substance of our problems," wrote Schlesinger. "Nor are substantive problems...
...protesters won out," said student placement director Arthur Hilson. "He came and couldn't get in. The students wouldn...