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...House.That same weekend, Spence gave Secret Service agent Ronald deGueldre, who arranged the tour, his $8,000 Rolex; deGueldre gave Spence his $22 Casio -- all out of friendship, says deGueldre. The agent's house in Virginia was searched last week for pieces of Truman china, a set of presidential cuff links and a tiepin that disappeared mysteriously after the tour. Officials will not say if anything was found...
...deepest relationships, then, were always with himself, and with the luminous sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process...
Cardi, playing number-two doubles with freshman Mike Shyjan, has been plagued since last fall by what he thinks could be a torn rotator cuff...
...home vs. Minnesota. Before the game against the Twins, the American League all-star team is named. Oil Can Boyd (6-6, 3.98) is not included. He is enraged and unloads a barrage of fast balls at the new luxury boxes in Fenway Park. He tears a rotator cuff and inadvertantly kills Joe ("I never played for Cincinnati") Morgan when the loveable Sox manager, trying to calm down his excitable player, gets in the way of a pitch...
...when Levine discusses in his epilogue the modern dilemma of stratified culture that he appears least historical and seems to be writing off-the-cuff. (Although a majority of the work was delivered by Levine at Harvard in his 1986 Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, the rest of Highbrow/Lowbrow nonetheless adheres to a bookish, historical style.) In the epilogue, which includes the umpteenth rebuttal to the moral philosopher Allan Bloom, Levine effectively calls for an appreciation of all cultures...