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...exactly prohibitive, but the limit may prove a harrowing restraint to the ample egos in the upper chamber. Just before the new rules were approved, Nevada's Howard Cannon-who happens to be chairman of the committee-had sent out a newsletter with nine references to himself on the first page, six on the second. His latest two-page newsletter, however, is a model of restraint: it contains a total of only five such references...
...variously as "an oversized Infanta of Spain, an enormous bird, a lion-hunting hostess." In Those Barren Leaves, Aldous Huxley described those moments, just before retiring, when the Ottoline-like character would turn to her house guest and ask probing, intimate questions. "For on the threshold of her bed-chamber she would halt," he says, "desperately renewing the conversation with whichever of her guests happened to light her upstairs. Who knew? Perhaps in these last five minutes, in the nocturnal silence, the important thing would be said." It is as if each of the artists with whom she was most...
...groups united for Sunday school in the first-floor chapel, a spacious but simple chamber without stained glass windows or other religious symbols. While over 100 branch members sat scattered through the rows of wooden benches divided by two aisles, Peterson, his assistants in the branch presidency, and several Harvard undergraduates who arranged or participated in the service sit up front on the dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have...
...noted in an ARTS SPECTRUM article this fall, Harvard's non-support for the arts is not simply financial. Rehearsals for the orchestra are conducted on the cramped stage in Paine Hall. 88 members just can't comfortably fit onto this stage built for chamber groups. The orchestra can't rehearse regularly in Sanders since the University rents the hall at every opportunity. Although serious consideration had been given to the use of a sound shell in Memorial Hall last May, the HRO is still rehearsing in Paine Hall and has prepared two more concerts in those cramped quarters...
...majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...