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...surveys found that students were quick to grasp pictures, but yawned at lengthy explanations. 3-2-1 Contact thus keeps the film rolling and dialogue fast paced. The inevitable result: few detailed discussions of scientific theories or principles. National Frisbee Champion Krae Van Sickle, for instance, likens the spinning disc to a gyroscope, but fails to explain what a gyroscope is, or how it works. The show rushes on to a glider sailing through the Colorado skies. It is all pleasant viewing, but does it really teach science? Probably not, in any systematic sense, as CTW admits. Says Research Director...
Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado conductor, Deutsche Grammophon). Pollini has had a banner year on disc, issuing fine performances of a staple of the repertory (Beethoven's Third Concerto) as well as an avant-garde experiment (Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene ...). This set-modernist but accessible- falls happily in-between. Bartók's angular octaves and Hungarian folk rhythms tempt many pianists to turn into percussionists. Pollini achieves a biting authority without ever banging...
...upstairs catalogue, then in the bowels of the Union catalogue; the trek to Countway or Tozzer or some other library in the hinterland and, finally, the gaping hole on the shelf. The time spent on the second floor of the Coop, pawing the record racks in search of a disc that you don't really want...
...several of the light-voting student precincts near Boston University and Northeastern, WBCN disc jockey Duane I. Glassock, running a write-in campaign as a joke to promote his radio show, may challenge the state senator for second place...
...Penn 9 Cornell 31 Dart 10 Colgate 17 Columbia 7 Brown 30 H C 14 1-3 15-11 .573 MICHELLE HEALY Princeton 12 Harvard 10 Yale 35 Penn 13 Cornell 14 Dart 13 Colgate 28 Columbia 21 H C 35 Brown 28 Staff Writer DUANE INGALLS GLASSCOCK WBCN Disc Jockey and Clone Princeton 42 Harvard 0 Penn 17 Yale 14 Cornell 17 Dart 14 Colgate 24 Colum 10 Brown 14 H C 13 guest