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This most select of Summer School musical organizations is Kirchner's four-year-old brainchild, and its composition and rehearsal schedule are both very much in line with his ideal of musical training--intensive immersion in the theory and practice of music by a group of top-flight musicians, both young hotshots and more experienced pros...
...said he believes liberal education has been weakened because of the "exaggerated permissiveness" of recent years. And because the task forces he has set up to review undergraduate curriculum and life take their cues from him--he denies this although everyone involved sees the entire review as his brainchild--their recommendations will undoubtedly reflect a desire to tighten up the educational system...
...that incident that got Pyle thinking about an insurance collective for the Harvard Community Health Plan. Pyle's brainchild reached fruition last weekend when the Harvard Plan, along with ten Harvard-affiliated hospitals, incorporated their own insurance company on the Cayman Islands in the Carribean...
...after the corporation's directors refused his request for a salary boost (TIME, Nov. 17, 1975). The event had all the earmarks of a boardroom putsch. Since 1971, when RCA absorbed a $490 million pretax loss in selling off the computer business that had been Bobby Sarnoff s brainchild, there had been widespread rumors about various directors' dissatisfaction with their chairman...
...fight is the brainchild of promoter Helyn C. Hall, a Roxbury schoolteacher who promoted the closed-circuit telecast of the Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in Boston last March. Hall said yesterday she has until April 5 to raise the financial guarantee for the fight...