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Heartz' harpsichord playing had some rhythmic tentativeness and wrong notes, but was adequate on the whole. As soloist he played Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...
Veteran Fund Raiser Heald will preside over the distribution of funds which have totaled more than $800 million since 1950. One of his earliest and most pleasant tasks: disbursement of the $260 million bonanza, deriving from last year's sale of Ford Motor Co. stock, to all accredited private colleges and universities-including $5,000,000 to N.Y.U...
...such an education, both the traditional and the progressive school are unsuited. From his earliest years the child must learn "the value of participation . . . He should learn to regard himself as a constructive critic [of the school] who not only dares to question the rules and program of a given classroom, but who also is expected to offer suggestions for improvement." Authority rests not so much with the teacher as with the group. "The teacher himself may belong to the minority−a position which he will gladly accept and for which he will be respected . . . The only acceptable definition...
...serving as chairman of the Board of Overseers for the past three years, Wyzanski is a trustee of Smith College, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Ford Foundation. His service on the U.N. delegation would begin on November 12, when the Assembly convenes, and extend through mid-December at the earliest...
...loan while the collection's ten galleries and corridors were being renovated. There was no doubt that the armor had been missed; up to 2,800 visitors a day thronged the main, banner-decked central court, to see the pick of an array that ranges from the earliest complete set of Gothic armor to the opulent Elizabethan harness once worn by the Queen's Champion, George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland...