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...beautiful," said Miranda. She drove, Skelton constantly looking back to see how it was trailing; the bow loomed in the rear window. "Does it mean...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Fish Comes to Shove | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

After a week of intensive negotiations, South Korea dispatched Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil to Japan to bow and offer an apology for the kidnaping to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Under the terms of the compromise, the government of President Chung Hee Park conceded that the chief "suspect" in the kidnaping was Kim Dong Woon, the former first secretary of the Korean embassy in Tokyo and a suspected agent of South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency. South Korea, though, insisted that whatever Kim Dong Woon might have done was not in any way an official act, but entirely private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Honorable Settlement | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: The Two Faces of Janos | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

...those days, cellists were held in no high esteem. "Ordinarily, I had as soon hear a bee buzzing in a stone jug," wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1894. It was Casals' destiny to change all that, and he began early. At that time, student cellists were taught to bow with their arms close to their sides, even holding a book under their armpits as a method of instruction. Casals tried bowing more freely and also began experimenting with the fingering of the left hand, which in the old tradition used to zip up and down the finger board like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Man for All Reasons | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...warning Cambridge and University students that whoever stole the sacred ibis shall be undone by a great curse," James M. Downey '74, Lampoon president, said yesterday. "Seven years of famine shall strike Mt. Auburn and Bow streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon's Ibis Stolen; Humor Club Says Curse Will Strike | 10/25/1973 | See Source »

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