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HAYDN: THE CREATION (2 LPs; Decca). One of the last great works of the skeptical 18th century was this triumphant affirmation of Haydn's faith. Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum...
...spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
When General Sir Edmund Allenby died at 75 in 1936, the New York Times composed a reverent fanfare of farewell: "None who held high command will be so long remembered in the English-speaking world." Yet less than 30 years later, the object of this adulation is remembered only vaguely as a World War I Blimp attached by chance to a much more colorful and important object: Lawrence of Arabia. Such an impression, says Historian Brian Gardner (The Year That Changed the World: 1945), is ludicrously inadequate. In this sound and vigorous biography, he demonstrates that Allenby was a grand...
...name several who come immediately to mind from the first term: Bob Caro, general assignment reporter for Newsday, concentrated much of his effort and classes in the English department on such trade-related subjects as "The Romans in America"; Ralph Hancox, editor of the Peterborough, Ontario, Examiner, devoted most of his time to French and a social relations course; former New York Herald Tribune Moscow reporter David Miller could be found as often in fine arts and music courses as in those related to the Soviet Union; and one of this year's specialists among the Fellows never set foot...
Freshmen would need English advanced placement scores of 4 or 5 and verbal SAT scores above 700 to take the courses. They will also submit short manuscripts as "a brief check on the test scores," but "nearly all who apply will be accepted," Kiely said. On the basis of this year's statistics. Kiely said that less than 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students would qualify...