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Horvits said his organization is making a special effort to enlist independents and dissident Democrats. Twenty percent of its membership are former McCormack supporters...
...Realist Marguerite Duras' pure conversational tour de force. The Square, has resulted in at least one non-novel of string-thin chitchat. The laudable Neo-Realist potion of engaging the reader directly in the action of the book has led another disciple, Marc Saporta, to try to enlist his readers as coauthor. His latest "novel." coming out this year, is an unbound stack of sparsely written pages. Buyers will be invited to shuffle them as they please and then read...
...upper range it soars to G above high C, and wise conductors almost always cheat on the trumpet part and make do with an E-flat clarinet or a soprano saxophone. As distinguished a musician as the Vienna Philharmonic's Helmuth Wobisch has been known to enlist a second trumpeter to negotiate the concerto's lower passages while he concentrated on the high ones...
Since 1960, when it ended 21 years of conscription, Britain's government has aimed to create a highly trained, professional fighting force to meet its worldwide strategic commitments. With full employment and prosperity, Englishmen are reluctant to enlist for soldier's pay ($70 per month for a private). As a result, the nation still relies, as it did in the heyday of Empire, on British-officered native troops to help man its overseas outposts. Last week the best of the overseas hirelings appeared in Britain itself; a contingent of 1,200 Gurkha troops filed off a troopship...
...great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors -Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world...