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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed in the effort of doing justice to Haydn's recently discovered concerto (composed circa 1765 and found in the National Museum in Prague in 1961) that her breathing is quite audible. More...
...kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world." Starting off in animal husbandry, he wrote his Bachelor's thesis in economics, reasoning that "if the Depression continued, there would be a great demand for people...
...Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Ottawa last week to attack a problem that has bothered Canada for more than a century. Pearson was seriously concerned about the country's 6,000,000 French Canadians, who in recent years have felt increasingly isolated and restless among Canada's English-speaking majority-so much so that many of them have begun to call for the outright secession of French-speaking Quebec. Aware, as Pearson put it, that any such divorce would produce "rupture, and loss and pain," the ministers took only three days to agree on what they must...
...Rudenstine is leaving Harvard. In July he will begin a five-year term as Dean of Students at Princeton. In his new job, he will oversee all the extra-curricular aspects of Princeton student life, while still teaching one English course a semester...
Asked why is he leaving now, after only four years at Harvard, Rudenstine quickly scotches rumors that dissatisfaction with Harvard's English Department has driven him away. "I'm leaving prematurely, it's true," he says, "but I certainly wouldn't have left Harvard at this point in order to teach English somewhere else. This chance was something new--something interesting and entirely unexpected...