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Lone Regret. As their careers blossomed, the brothers agreed that each would go his own way until the time was ripe for them to form the quartet. At 21, Francis was accepted by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Joseph went on to distinguish himself as principal violist with the Boston Symphony and to record trios with Heifetz and Piatigorsky. Robert joined the New York Philharmonic, and William, at 25, was appointed concertmaster of the New Orleans Philharmonic. Their father died in 1956, but each summer the brothers returned home for two months of intensive practice. Then, in 1963, William won a position...
...festival of the performing arts is more than a series of single events. There are characteristics of a "festival event" that distinguish it from most other concerts, recitals, and film showings. The House festival event is convenient and informal. It often makes available a kind of programming that is not possible when only a single event is being presented...
...there was a way to drink seriously, and a way not to drink seriously. Of three years at Harvard he had spent the last two learning the former, and was glad to distinguish himself from many of his acquaintances whose drinking was of the rowdy-up-and-puke sort...
...thus far Heath has been unable to offer alternatives to Labour's economic policies which can sharply distinguish the Conservative's position. His broad aim to revitalize the British economy as outlined in the election manifesto has been met with a chorus from columnists and editorial writers...
...Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously fingering their cigars. For Boston Globe Managing Editor Tom Winship, it was one more reason to pray for a quick end to the strike. Said he: "Aren't newspapermen awful...