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...that “at conservatory, lessons are at least once weekly.” He nevertheless feels that the OFA “is great at supporting classical music on an amateur level”.Francesca Anderegg mentions the invaluable benefit of having an active concert artist like Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68 on campus as one of the highlights in her Harvard musical experience. However, she notes that there are virtually no other concert artists on Harvard’s faculty, and that Levin’s performance schedule...
...also served as assistant editor for four volumes of “The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt” and editor for five volumes of “The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...written a playbook for the President who is trying to stop a second-term slump before it becomes a long slide to oblivion. The most successful ones in modern times have gone about it in different ways, depending on the forces that were arrayed against them. Dwight Eisenhower, confronting a hostile Congress, made his mark with his veto pen. Ronald Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could...
...excellent perspective, but also had an eye for the telling detail: Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower, George H.W. Bush's penchant for e-mailing racy jokes to friends, Richard Nixon's love of classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could to his hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, where his entry...
...character. Likewise, Cassell reprises his Gallic villain from “Ocean’s Twelve” with only minimal success; he’s genuinely creepy, but it is seriously doubtable that the slender French sleazeball could actually strike fear in the exceedingly masculine Owen (think of Dwight in “Sin City”). The real mystery of the film—beyond how the director failed to incite a sexual spark between the gorgeous leads—is why Robert “The RZA/Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah/ Rzarector Prince Rakeem...