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...Bill Bain, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 3 in., 268 lbs. A bruiser who can play anywhere along the line. He's been prying open gaps for Anthony Davis for two years...
...SECRET GLASS by BERYL BAIN BRIDGE 152 pages. Braziller...
...fashionable then to hang paintings in a nobleman's elaborate salle de bain. This was a salon, often very elegantly furnished with rugs, tapestries and paintings, to which the nobleman's valet brought a tub of hot water...
...Bain, their fiddler from the Shetlands, produces the music of what sounds like an orchestra of violins. A serious student of this century's champion fiddlers throughout Britain, he is able to recreate, for example, a dazzling fiddle tune in half a dozen incarnations representing different fiddling traditions. Cathal McConnel and Robin Morton, their champion flutist and percussionist, have rich, lilting voices to match their meticulous musicianship. The group's original guitarist, Dick Gaughan, has been replaced in the last year by, I believe, another Scot or a Welshman. Together, they can call upon an amazing variety of musical backgrounds...
...difficult courses. Some professors are skeptical about the effect of pass/fail on motivation and learning. Says Stanford Philosophy Professor John Mothershead Jr.: "There's a great temptation for a bright student in a pass/fail course not to do any work and get away with it." Associate Registrar Philip Bain at the University of Idaho agrees. "The students say pass/fail reduces their anxiety," he says. "But our studies show it also reduces their motivation, the amount of material learned and their goals...