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TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Melodiya-Angel). An extraordinary father-son act: David Oistrakh, 58, conducts the Moscow Philharmonic, while his son Igor, 35, fiddles. David, long considered one of the world's great violinists, now proves himself, after only five years on the podium, a conductor of major talent, while young Igor shows every indication of keeping the Oistrakh name in the annals of superior violinists. Together, they exploit every nuance in Tchaikovsky's eternally popular concerto, an exercise in wild conversation between the persistent, articulate voice of the violin and the rumbling, colorful orchestra...
...Baker "did not commit theft from the savings and loan executives." Government attorneys this week will try to shake Baker's story under crossexamination. Whatever the outcome, his testimony will only becloud the memory of Bob Kerr-the man with whom Baker, according to his attorney, had "a father-son relationship...
...adviser to the President of the U.S. He not only worked directly on many of the legislative matters of the Great Society, but took on the most disparate tasks-from foreign-policy trips to speechwriting to image-building campaigns-at which Lyndon Johnson needed help. Because of a trusting, father-son relationship with the President, Moyers also knew how to handle his difficult boss with a directness that few Johnson aides enjoyed...
...Though there have been father-son (John and John Quincy Adams), grandfather-grandson (William H. and Benjamin Harrison) and cousin-cousin (Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt) takeovers...
...shock of recognition floods in. But while a portion of these fantasies are conscious and intended, most of them are not. Sartre has, for example, to some degree, the illusion of having experienced a perfect infancy. Because his father died when he was very young, Sartre believes he escaped the burden of Oedipal difficulties stemming from father-son competition...