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...fortissimo, the Berliners showed off the strengths that have made them the class of world-class ensembles. First there are the string sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
...later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality. Its location was known only to him. He would need great cleverness to keep New York businessmen from wheedling its location out of him, but he wasn't worried. He knew how to handle such men." He stayed for months and left only after wheedling Baker...
...halls of fame of three major fields of sport: college football, pro football and track and field. When Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustav V, presenting the gold medals, proclaimed him "the finest athlete in the world." Said Thorpe in response: "Thanks, King." Six months later the medals were taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered that Thorpe had earned $15 a week during two summers as a minor league outfielder, thus forfeiting his amateur status. The loss...
...weeks ago, the spikers would have been unable to halt the decline typified in the second contest. Yesterday, however, the team was able to regroup not only to win that game, but to play some of the finest volleyball exhibited the entire season...
Harvard's encouraging performance yesterday comes right on the tail of a disappointing--but very well played--five set loss to MIT, one of the finest learns in the East. Also, last Saturday, the Crimson placed second in a UNH sponsored tournament...