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...home about. But if electronics or private services ever totally take over the business of correspondence, something will have been lost. Stamps, as this volume demonstrates, have often achieved a rare combination of function and beauty. David Lidman, a former stamps editor for the New York Times, offers a crisp history of franking, from ancient stone tablets to contemporary air mail. The 1,200 color illustrations convey a representative sampling of the good, the odd and the exceptional. Committed collectors may find nothing new here, but the book is ready-made for the Johnny-come-philately...
...ignited Harvard offense carried the action to Northeastern with crisp passing by Harvard's John Moot and Andy Spalding. Some deep penetration by center Mike Stewart added to the active pace that carried over from the first into the second period...
...despite some valid insights into the realities of a welfare recipient's daily existence, reading A Welfare Mother is an excrutiatingly frustrating experience. The text ambles through external description without dropping any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
...capability and his power to elicit clean, solid tone. The accompaniment by the chamber ensemble, especially in the final Allegro, had a shimmering, airy quality--one that marks a thoughtful interpretation of Italian Baroque music. Michael Curry, in particular, carried the obbligato lines to Shumsky's solo passages with crisp vitality...
...Tricks. For the Mozart Requiem, Karajan opted convincingly for a large symphonic approach, sweeping the music along with crisp rhythms and an ingenious succession of tempos. Bruckner's Te Deum has a peculiarly spare, even austere ring; Karajan caught that quality by the simple expedient of exposing all its modal harmonies and laying out its violent cross-rhythms firmly and precisely. Best of all perhaps was the Beethoven Ninth. This was one of those uncommon moments in which the strictest adherence to the letter of the score had a liberating effect. Rarely has the scherzo been taken at such...