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...kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural, the adviser, in the shape of Henry Kissinger, had claimed the best office in the West Wing at the President's own level. It was a measure of the enlarging role...
...life Barragán, the drip and plash of that water in his memory's ear, has sought to re-create the serenity and beauty of the little village's patios, places of refuge for body and spirit. Last week his success was recognized with the prestigious $100,000 Inter national Pritzker Architecture Prize, created last year by the Hyatt Foundation to do for architecture what the Nobel Prize does for other disciplines. Declared the citation: "He has created some of our most unforgettable gardens, plazas and fountains, all magical places for meditation and companionship...
...music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members and molded them into a unit renowned for its tonal sheen and bravura. As he has said: "The Philadelphia...
...issue is not one of technique; this was not merely a "mistake," a "blunder," a "screw-up." The use of military force was unjustified and wrong. It was wrong because President Carter acted as he has always acted, with an ear to the polls and feeling the sting of a defeat in the Pennsylvania primary. It was wrong because eight American soldiers died in an unnecessary military action. It was wrong because it was conducted in complete secrecy, in defiance of the spirit of a democratic society, as embodied in the War Powers...
During his three-year tenure as associate dean, Bowersock provided an accessible and sensitive ear for students' concerns. He was also a vocal champion of academic reform, most notably in the areas of drama courses for credit and tutorials...