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...will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale? We get the politicians we deserve, goes the saying. But do the gentle, life-revering Buddhists of Burma and Tibet deserve the thugs who control them? Peter Phillpotts, Matlock, England...
Rock 'n' Roll is the first stage work Stoppard has written explicitly about Czechoslovakia, where he was born in 1937 but which he left as a baby when his parents fled the Nazis, moving to Singapore and then India before landing in Bristol, England...
...says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most of his spare time reading--most recently Janet Malcolm's biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. His chief recreational passion is trout fishing, which he does four or five times a year, usually in Hampshire, England, but with periodic ventures to more exotic climes like New Mexico and Wyoming...
...professional training ground. Many current and past members of prominent American and international orchestras have played in the HRO, according to Yannatos.John D. Kapusta ’09, a trumpet player as well as a vocalist in the five-year joint degree program between Harvard and the New England Conservatory, is serving as assistant conductor this season. He is following in the footsteps of such heavyweights as Leon Botstein—now the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and president of Bard College—and Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the music director-elect...
...situation in America is still dire. Last May, I told a roomful of fellowship-recipients that I was most excited about a summer in England because of their excellent beer. Everyone laughed—but I wasn’t joking. Here in the U.S., yellow piss like Coors is either chugged or doled out as punishment in games designed to minimize exposure to the taste buds. American microbreweries make the world’s best beers, and yet most of us never venture far beyond Natty...