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...Voice of Ariadne burnishes Thea Musgrave's reputation for excellence and innovation. She is today's leading woman composer, but is just as happy to keep sex out of it: "The battle's been won. hasn't it?" she demands in a gentle Scotch burr. "Look, I started out to be a doctor, and could have done it well. But I've come to feel that these days it's more important to re-establish that side of humanity which is imaginative, and lyrical, and all those other things. The fight...
Attica and Salt of the Earth. A United Farmworkers' benefit, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 in Burr...
...result of the incident, at least one Lowell House resident will propose to the House Committee that all entry doors be kept locked. Entry doors have been locked only occasionally this year, Christopher M. Jedrey, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, said yesterday, "The fact that it (the robbery) happened may mean that some action will be taken to increase security, possibly by locking the outer gate and issueing keys to residents...
...Diving Competition: Unlike diving you're likely to see at the IAB, the purpose of this rainy day event is to stay out of the pool or rather the spray from passing taxi cabs and MBTA buses. Catch this action up close by Burr Hall as vehicles take the turn into Quincy Street leaving wakes up to eight feet...
...think that the only Scottish murder mystery is Macbeth. Set in contemporary Glasgow, it has not a bonny brae nor a twirling tartan to its name; but it offers an assortment of colorful underworld types who demonstrate that tough talk is not softened when it is spoken with a burr. Laidlaw is also the first police procedural by Scottish Author William McIlvanney, 41, who has written three earlier novels and a book of poems, none published in the U.S. Like the whiskies of his native land, Mcllvanney's debut here comes after appropriate aging...