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...Fifteen of Venezuela's most prominent journalists will participate in a seminar on "Venezuela Today" in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. this evening. The seminar is open to all Harvard and Radcliffe students interested in Latin American affairs...
Cramped by tradition, Liszt insisted on writing a full-length sonata without sonata form, without movements, and with no more than a bare minimum of thematic material. The stuff of his piece is virtually over in the first fifteen measures: the introduction, a meditative, decending scale in the piano's lower registers, then the main theme, crashing, acrobatic octaves followed by a tiny march, again down...
...September, as much for self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
...advertisements proclaim "a fifteen-year-old, leading a man to destruction," but the tenor of all this "destruction" is pretty tame. As in so many cases, there is more going on in the theatre than on the screen by way of titillation. Audiences which are sent into paroxysms by angry young man films or the Italian realists may feel edified by Term of Trial; I am inclined to join with Shirley's roommate in a plaintive, "Give me some action...