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...took Bowdoin all of 30 seconds to tie it up again as Andy Minich took the face-off from Roger Elliott and fired a shot into the upper corner behind an amazed Harvard goaltender, Barry Wald. The visitors grabbed the lead for the first time just one minute and 30 seconds later...
ALLIGATORS AND MUSIC by Donald Elliott. Illustrated by Clinton Arrowood. 67 pages. Gambit. $8.95. Anyone who thinks of alligators as truculent beasts can thank Clinton Arrowood for revealing their spiritual side: they are dedicated musicians. There is no indication of this in Donald Elliott's didactic text, a series of short essays in which the instruments of the orchestra archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd...
Masterly Campaign. The results stunned the entire country. From Ottawa, Pierre Elliott Trudeau-a Quebecker and a bitter enemy of separatism -immediately appeared on nationwide television, grimly asserting that "Mr. Lévesque and his party have been granted a mandate to form a government in the province, not to separate that province from the rest of the country. I can only assume the Parti Québécois will govern while respecting the letter and spirit of the Canadian constitution...
...Natural Resources within a year. He earned the nickname "Reneé the Red" in conservative, English-speaking business circles by pushing through a controversial nationalization of Quebec's hydroelectric industry. One friend with whom Lévesque spent many heated nights discussing the hydro scheme was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then a law professor at the University of Montreal...
...United States, due to the dearth of government subsidies for the arts, has traditionally been at a disadvantage because of the lack of guaranteed funds.) Then, the member nations select compositions from their countries and submit them to the international jury, which includes contemporary music luminaries Gunther Schuller, Elliott Carter, Jacques Guyonnet, David Drew, and Marlos Nobre. A special effort was made this year to provide a broad cross-section of trends and countries; every member nation is represented by compositions except Iceland. Most of the works have been composed within the past five years, and none dates further back...