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Flailing Arms. The first half belonged to Russell. Tireless and amazingly agile, he stretched his 6-ft. 101n. frame until it seemed to tower over the taller Chamberlain. When Warrior guards tried to feed Pivot Man Chamberlain with soft, overhead passes, Russell was there-arms flailing-to bat the ball away. When Chamberlain leaped for his famed "fallaway" push shot, Russell leaped with him leaning into Wilt just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only...
Neal Zaslaw, flutist, and Anne Chamberlain, pianist, deserved more than the handful of the faithful at Paine Hall last Monday evening. The first Boston performance of John Harbison's "Duo" rewarded the small audience that did show...
...quality of the performance fluctuated curiously. At times, in the "Lullaby," for instance, the piano overpowered the flute. Yet in the roaring "Intermezzo," Miss Chamberlain, much as she may have tried, could not be sufficiently brutal...
...program opened and closed with sonatas by Bach and Haydn. Though Mr. Zaslaw's tone initially carried too much breath, it projected the low registers, and the breathiness disappeared later. Miss Chamberlain contributed wrong notes in the difficult spots; in the delicate passages she failed to make the crucial notes sound...
Nonetheless, argues Macleod, "it is not at Munich but at the locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...