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Horowitz has always found much of his amusement in dreaming up gadgets, off-beat electronic gear that no one has built before, whether by choice or by oversight. As offshoots of early hobbies, he built a teletype for ham operators that transmits in Morse Code, and a metronome that, with...
HIS FACE fixed in a wide smile, Everett Mendelsohn arrives early for his 11 a.m. lectures on "The Social Context of Science." The graceful, slim, veteran activist and professor of the History of Science--only eight days past his 42nd birthday--likes to chat briefly with the regulars who return...
I also take issue with Hoffman's criticism that Portney's "hair-flicking, soul-stirring mannerisms" worked to the detriment of the performance. A virtuoso show-piece such as the Tchaikovsky needs to be played with a flourish (the age of the player is irrelevant); to demand that it be...
Yet the playing was extremely good. Portney does have a staggering technique. If his hair-flicking, soul-stirring mannerisms were toned down--they look ridiculously out of place for such a young man--he would have far more to offer as a performer.
"We had long had our problems," Riggs says of Priscilla. "My wife thought I ought to spend more time looking after my family instead of playing gin and hustling golf and tennis. She didn't think it was dignified. Once she made me go to a psychiatrist to try...