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...including the Collegium Musicum, The Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. The soloists, all from the Boston area, were Mary Strebing, soprano, Jan Curtis, alto, Robert Gartside, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass. The very fine orchestra included both Harvard students and Boston professionals contracted by concertmaster Robert Brink. Adams led all these forces in an intense and exciting performance...
...decision to move in on his family drives his son, Patrick (Mark Achtemeier), who has always resented him, to the brink of patricide. Patrick's own son Michael (Doug McKinley) has grown up to be unshakeably unimaginative, and rejects his grandfather's offer of an all-expenses-paid trip around the world. He explains that all he really wants to do is settle down and marry his girl friend. Grandfather promptly expires in a living room chair, overcome by this indirect condemnation of his own life-style, while his family celebrates Michael's engagement with champagne. The Millay family gets...
...witnesses of the Cultural Revolution that racked China from 1966 to 1969, the evangelistic tone of those words from a Peking radio broadcast last week had an ominous significance. After years of relative moderation, the country seemed on the brink of yet another convulsive turn leftward...
...that has nationwide implications. The crux of the issue in Boston: Why should taxpayers money be poured into a new public-university center with a planned enrollment of 12,500 when there is space for some 20,000 students in nearby private institutions- several of which are on the brink of financial disaster...
Despite the recent wave of popular unrest, Indonesia is far better off than it was under dictatorial President Sukarno, whose government was overthrown eight years ago. Sukarno drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy; today it has a foreign exchange surplus of $500 million, an 8% growth rate and a 25% inflation rate (v. a crushing 635% in 1966). Jakarta's main thoroughfare, the Jalan M.H. Thamrin, is lined with modern hotels and high-rise office blocks...