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When Stephen Sondheim was a freshman pursuing mathematics at Williams College, he enrolled in a music course. Most of the class, he recalls, loathed it. "The professor, Robert Barrow, was cold and dogmatic. I thought he was the best thing I had ever encountered, because he took all the romance away from art. Instead of the muse coming at midnight and humming Some Enchanted Evening into your ear, music was constructed. It wasn't what other people wanted to hear, but it turned me into a music major...
DIED. Errol Barrow, 67, politically moderate, English-educated Prime Minister of Barbados, who led his Caribbean country to independence from Britain in 1966 and served three times as Prime Minister, helping to make Barbados one of the region's most stable nations; of a heart attack, after suffering from diabetes; in Bridgetown. An advocate of economic diversification and pan- Caribbean cooperation, Barrow criticized the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada...
...town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle, and an entrepreneur in Des Moines who sells live bait through vending machines...
...time of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, one of the Reagan Administration's strongest Caribbean backers was Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados. Among Washington's strongest re- gional critics was Adams' chief opponent, former Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Since then, Adams has died and been replaced by Bernard St. John, but the U.S.'s Caribbean policy has remained a controversial subject on the island...
During the recent election campaign, Barrow referred to Ronald Reagan as a "cowboy" who "cannot speak without the use of a TelePrompTer." Most observers thought the outcome would be close. But when the vote was counted last week, Barrow's Democratic Labor Party had won 24 of the 27 seats in Parliament. Despite the outcome, the U.S. expected little change in its relations with the island nation...