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...story: During exam period last June, a student became so worried about an upcoming final that he asked his roommate to smash his finger with a hammer. The roommate obliged, with some precautions taken for his friend's safety and comfort, and the distraught student suffered his way into an airtight medical excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handling Grade Panic | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Like many another piano student, she logged the requisite thousand hours before Carl Czerny's yellow-backed exercise books. But while Roberta Flack labored over knuckle-aching third and fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What Ever Happened to Rubina Flake? | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Ricks pointed out the careful way Dylan chooses his words. William Zanzinger twirls the cane around his "diamond ring finger" here Dylan uses a noun as an adjective a device that may be rejected by the Iowa Poetry Workshop" but that makes for evocative poetry. The rhymes in the second verse, about William Zanzinger, are all masculine that is, the rhymed syllables an stressed In the third verse which recounts the life of Hattie Carroll, the accents are feminine kitchen-children; table-level...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Positively Oxford Street | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

...Middle East financiers are buying technology," reads an ad in Milan's Corriere della Sera. "Encounter with the Middle East!" cries a come-on in Paris' Le Monde. Another ad in London's staid Financial Times crooks an inviting finger: "The Middle East wants to do business with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Bartering for Oil | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

McHugh doggedly came up throwing, but the home plate umpire was already waving his finger around over his head, indicating it was a home run. Northeastern coach Johm Connolly and his dugout protested loudly, but to no avail. The college rules state that if a fielder is carried out of the ballpark by his own momentum, it is a home run regardless if he catches...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Driscoll Pitches, Bats Harvard By Huskies, 3-1 | 4/24/1975 | See Source »

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