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...book provides a view of history that is akin to walking past displays in a museum. Like a wax museum, it has its chamber of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by esthetic distance...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: An Exile's View of Dawn | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

After riding for an hour or two, Patty was taken into a building and, still blindfolded, placed in a small, confining chamber. For a moment she thought she was going to be buried alive. "I was really scared . . . I must have started to do something because right away . . . they told me it was a closet." DeFreeze said she was a "prisoner of war" in the revolutionary struggle of the S.L.A. with American society and that she would be safe as long as nothing happened to two members, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little, who had been jailed on charges of murdering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Moshell's magical touch is that despite the limits of rehearsal time and space, he always manages to pull off successful large-scale productions, replete with taste and finesse. This Saturday night's concert will feature the Prokofieff Third Piano Concerto, the Strauss Oboe Concerto, and works for chamber ensemble by Stravinsky and Grandjany. In order to accommodate everyone in the Kirkland JCR, the program will be done twice...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Music | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

Concerto Concert with the Kirkland Festival Orchestra featuring Gerry Moshell, conductor Stephen Drury, piano and Kip Wilkins, oboe. Prokofieff Piano Concerto No. 3, Strauss Oboe Concerto, plus chamber works for harp and tenor by Grandjany and Stravinsky. Kirkland House...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Music | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

Independence has been an emotional cause for more than a century. In Puerto Rico's universities, among older intellectuals and even within a faction of the ruling party, various shades of independentista sentiment persist. Alfonso Valdes Jr., a prosperous businessman and former Chamber of Commerce president, sighs and says: "Independence is very close to my heart. It is a romantic idea and deep down, emotionally, most Puerto Ricans feel sympathy for it. But it is impractical for as long as we can see. It just would not work." Adds Alex Maldonado, editor of the pro-Commonwealth El Mundo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Trying to Moke It Without Miracles | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

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