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Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Robert Tear, Soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). In his final work, the ailing Berlioz took Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and made it into his own Tempest, a blend of wit, ardor and gentle sadness bathed in the amber light of a late Parisian afternoon. The opera may be better heard than seen, since its extended passages of French dialogue make it problematical to stage; certainly it is a pleasure in this buoyant...
...combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs. Meeder's ver dict was that Amy was "very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees at embassies, including those...
...alarming communique suggesting that "when certain forces announce a coup from the left, it can be suspected that there is a coup from the right in preparation." At week's end Pinheiro de Azevedo's regime was still in power. But no one was willing to pre dict how long it would last, even though it was the first Cabinet since the revolution that has even come close to representing Portugal's non-Communist majority...
...Buchen to study that question. Buchen quickly discovered, as any reader of informed legal speculation in newspaper accounts at the time had also learned, that Presidents had exerted such power in the past. According to this explanation, Ford had also been in formed that Jaworski was about to in dict Nixon for a whole series of crimes. Since there was doubt that the ex-President could get a fair trial, and since Ford had decided in any case to pardon Nixon at some point, there was no reason to wait. "Mercy is never untimely," said Buchen...
Finally, a half-century after the last major revision of the rules, the Ministry of National Education has announced a broad program of reform to start next fall. The old dictées will give way to exercises designed to help a student's development. No longer will pupils be compelled to memorize long lists of irregular verbs, or to suffer punitive homework consisting of copying conjugations a hundred times over. Indeed the ministry described the traditional teaching of grammar as a "plague." Instead, children will be encouraged to talk and act freely in class. Even the scratchy pens...