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What little is known of his true nature comes from a handful of his friends and associates. By their testimony, he is intelligent, warm, charming, compassionate, humorous and unpretentious, as well as undisciplined, boorish, gloomy, supercilious, cruel and downright bent. About the only thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self-Portrait of an Angel and Monster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Mendelssohn grew up in Berlin, but that city was not always kind to him. Because he was born a Jew, the Nazis did their best to expunge his name, and his elegant, sweet, highly uncontroversial works, from Germany between 1933 and 1945. What happened thereafter was odd if not downright shameful. Mendelssohn's name remained forgotten in postwar Germany, his music rarely played. Even his grave, in the Mendelssohn family plot, was all but lost amidst the rubble and weeds in Berlin's Holy Trinity Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Felix Forever | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...kept his remarks on the unofficial level. Von Stade has apparently raised the issue of the moral implications of University complicity in condoms and foam and the resulting responsibility for widespread birth-control. Unfortunately, he has also kept his remarks on a level that is either spectacularly naive or downright insulting to the sexual predispositions of freshmen and freshwomen everywhere. "It might reinforce the idea that it isn't a bad thing." Von Stade told one reporter apparently referring first to the sale of contraceptives and then to premarital intercourse...

Author: By Bill Backett, | Title: Contraceptives and the Union | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

Later on as it became clearer that the voters of the District were repudtating Kerry's congressional bid the smells of electoral politics became more and more noxious for Kerry supporters. And by 2 a.m. on election might, they had become downright sickening to the Kerry people...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Congress: How to Lose and How to Win | 11/14/1972 | See Source »

Whether the Crimson's non-offense was due to Crone's lack of opportunity to move the Crimson attack--the optimistic view--or to a downright inability to move the club--the pessimistic one--Restic stuck with him down to the bitter...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Tie May Boost Crimson Title Chances; Restic Protests Dartmouth Officiating | 10/31/1972 | See Source »

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