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Insane Leader. While his country languishes, Amin loses no opportunity to nail down his reputation as the world's most unstable-if not downright insane -leader, publicly lecturing world leaders on their shortcomings and quarreling with neighboring African states. Two weeks ago he let it be known that he planned to make a state visit to Britain this summer, where he hopes-inexplicably-to meet with some of the 50,000 Asians whom, as he delicately put it, "I booted out" in 1972. Unsurprisingly, a Foreign Office spokesman said that such a visit was "unlikely...
...uninitiated, his recent orchestral and chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters of compositional style he is essentially fatherless. No one teacher, composer or school of thought can be said...
...composers think of the harpsichord as a piano or as a percussion instrument. They expect you to bang very hard on it," says Kipnis. The impressionism of Debussy or Delius, which calls for a dreamy, sustained tone, simply will not work on a harpsichord. A stride bass can sound downright laughable. The technique of the harpsichordist exists entirely in the fingers, not partly in the arms as with a pianist. The music must be written so that it lies, as Kipnis puts it, "all under the fingers." The special gift of the harpsichord is its startling ability to define close...
...past the point of no return by a husband's inability to accept his wife's operation. "My husband is an alcoholic, and this was just one more thing he couldn't handle," says Mrs. Judy Keating, 37, of Atlanta. "He told me my scar was downright ugly...
Personal relations between the two leaders' immediate predecessors -Georges Pompidou and Willy Brandt -were never close and sometimes downright frosty. Thus the spectacle of a genuinely close relationship between Paris and Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well...