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...much Schubert in the air? Jan. 31, 1997 was the 200th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth. This Friday, at 8:00 pm, the Apple Hill Chamber Players of New Hampshire will be performing a special all-Schubert Valentine's Day concert in the Longy School's Edward Pickman Concert Hall. Their program will feature the famous "Trout" Quintet in A (Op. 114, D. 667) and other pieces. The Longy School itself is presenting a four-month celebration of the master of the lieder which kicked off on Jan. 31 but is continuing through May. All events are free...
...what became a sideshow for the public remained a vital issue for the small group of people whose isolation she had broken. "Into the '80s," says Edward Cohen, a Manhattan writer working on a book about modern atheists, "people would hear her speak live or on the air, their mouths would hang open. It reassured them that they weren't the only ones on earth to feel this way." Says Orin ("Spike") Tyson, a friend and employee of O'Hair's who is now living, albeit embattled, in the house on Greystone Drive: "She went out in public and made...
...plane. Air traffic controllers could not help, because the aircrafts' radar blips had merged on their screens. Although the military says the pilots followed correct procedures, "The fighter pilots could simply have radioed the other guy for ID, but they didn't follow the normal procedure," says TIME's Edward Barnes. The close encounter has also renewed speculation about the still unsolved crash of TWA flight 800. Conspiracy buffs on the Internet were quick to point to the latest incident as evidence supporting their theory that a military screw-up caused the crash...
...moment three classics of the American postwar theater are enjoying simultaneous London revivals. Davies (who eventually did direct an acclaimed 1988 National Theatre production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) has staged a hit revival of Edward Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Diana Rigg and David Suchet. Willie Loman is lugging his valises home once again in a National Theatre production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. And veteran director Peter Hall has imported Jessica Lange to play Blanche Dubois (a role she played on Broadway in 1992) and surrounded her with...
...Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History Edward L. Keenan's illustration of the tendency of people to accept bad living situations rather than to take risks involved in seeking change for their own betterment, in his class Historical Study A-42, Nation, State and Empire in West Eurasian Space...