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Pitching is the strong suit of this season's Red squad. Senior Kirk Brink has yet to give up an earned run in EIBL play, having authored a 3-2 victory over a tough Penn team...
...embarrassment at the individual face of death," says Dr. Herman Feifel, professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California, "forces the seriously ill and dying person to live alone on the brink of an abyss with no one to understand him." It is ironic that the very truths from which the patient is being "protected" by family and doctors are the same truths with which he is being forced to live--alone. Hendin argues that our inability, or unwillingness, to cope with death results, in part, from a lack of close contact with it at an early age. "Current...
...always admired eccentrics. Eminent disregard for the conventional exposes our ridiculousness and negates this world's power to produce migraines, ulcers and hysteria. Contact with a true eccentric is essential to maintaining one's sanity. The few eccentrics I've known have rescued me from the brink of self-destruction. Eccentrics hang drying pumpkin and apple slices from their livingroom ceilings. They know the words to "God Save the Czar." They are experts on the Hapsburgs. They wear Wallabees. And, if they happened to have been extremely rich and Bostonian in the 1890s, they built Venetian palaces...
...chords were clean and full-toned, and Liszt's famous accelerating octave chromatic scales sent tense waves of excitement through the audience. Kogan's marvelously smooth execution of Liszt's flamboyance was accompanied by a sensitive, mature interpretation of the melodic lines, which often teeter precariously on the brink of ridiculous melodrama and so are salvageable only through extreme delicacy...
...outer movements were better done than the Credo or the Sanctus, the former being sloppy, and perhaps too demanding for the Choir, and the latter featuring the quartet of soloists and a long violin solo which was drabbly executed by Mr. Brink...