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Author Hildesheimer wastes no time telling us that he is the sort of fellow more interested in the hole than the doughnut. "Our task," he states, "is to blot out existing ideas, but not to mediate between Mozart and the reader. On the contrary, the intention of this study is to make the distance between both sides even greater . . . between Mozart's inner life and our inadequate conception of its nature and dimension...
...philosopher William James expressed a similar reaction after a visit to Chautauqua in 1896: "I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. And yet what was my own astonishment, on emerging into the dark and wicked world again, to catch myself . . . saying 'Ouf, what a relief! Now for something primordial and savage . . . to set the balance straight...
With all this novelty, a Crimson rooter looking for a familiar face on which to cast his eyes will probably seek out coach Joe Restic, starting his eleventh season as Czar of the Multiflex. Restic has obviously been a successful Liontamer, with the only blot on his 9-1 career mark the 21-19 defeat in Cambridge two years...
...relief, is his servant Sganarelle (Roy Brocksmith). He makes cowardice an art form. Brocksmith has some of the elephantine grace of Zero Mostel. Seitz's Don Juan is a triumph of stylized scorn. He scuttles about the stage crab-fashion. He gazes into a mirror as if to blot out the scum of the earth. Even in wooing, he masks any show of passion. He is, for certain, a radical Don Juan...
...first came to Wimbledon ten years ago, and in that long span she has never failed to reach the semifinals. Even more remarkable, she has played in the finals seven times. It is a measure of her pre-eminence that she considered a mere two Wimbledon titles a blot on her career, and she was determined to win her third. "I have been thinking about Wimbledon all year," she said. "Every match I played, every time I practiced, I said to myself, 'This is what I'm going to use for Wimbledon...