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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...such a policy change does come about, the University will certainly have a big task ahead of it. Some companies are named Harvard coincidentally. Others, like Harvard Dry Cleaners, Harvard Car Wash. Harvard Auto and Truck Repair, Harvard Refuse and even the Harvard. Family Restaurant--all in Cleveland--seem to take their name from their close proximity to scores of streets, roads and avenues around America that are also named Harvard...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: They Call Themselves Harvard | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

When Don Shula was a rookie player in the National Football League, he was the only one who made the Cleveland Browns, a commentary on the quality of competition then and now. His John Carroll University classmate Carl Taseff made the cab squad. "Nice tackle, Taseff," Paul Brown observed at practice one day. "The name is Shula," he replied squarely, like his jaw, like everything about him, in a manner that chilled the veterans. But it actually warmed Brown, who was attracted to the twinkle in this young man's eye, which begins to describe Shula's instant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twinkles in Two Men's Eyes | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...When the Cleveland Orchestra announced that Christoph von Dohnányi would become its new music director beginning this season, he seemed an unlikely choice. Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honeymoon in Cleveland | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Dohnányi's strength lies in warm but unsentimentalized interpretations of an essentially Central European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honeymoon in Cleveland | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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