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...Inventive bit of programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string quartet with HRO concerto competition winner Lynn Chang as first violinist. Their sound was well blended, and if a lack of sensitivity to the light-hearted humor of the last two movements ended the piece on a dry note, the performance as a whole showed a unity and sincerity of interpretation...
...library that Kennedy envisaged was not a memorial, but a political science center with himself-perhaps as a professor at Harvard-as the focal point...
...three months since South Boston High became the focal point of Boston's bitter school-desegregation battle, a majority of the white students and many of the newly enrolled blacks have been boycotting the school. Last week attendance dropped to zero when South Boston High and seven other Boston public schools were closed after a new outbreak of racial violence. During a shoving match outside a South Boston High classroom, Michael Faith, 18, a white student from South Boston, was stabbed. Armed policemen assigned to patrol the troubled corridors arrested James White, 18, a black student from Roxbury. Faith...
...bargaining power. The other, the Maintenance Trades Council of New England, is broader based but severely hurting financially. Most of the trades council's still-continuing negotiating with Harvard has been done by officials of its central office, not its workers at Harvard, and as a consequence the focal point of the negotiations has been benefits that would strengthen the financial position of the union but not of its members at Harvard...
...Joni," says Singer Linda Ronstadt, "is the first woman to match any man on his own terms as a songwriter, guitar player or as an incredibly magnetic human being." Among other things, Joni is a focal point for elegance in a profession of rumpled informality A Persian carpet and a vase of red roses are de rigueur stage decorations for concerts. Most rock-concert performers, bored with singing their ultimate paean for the umpteenth time, wait for their own turns on the program in backstage trailers. But when Joni goes onstage, so do the other entertainers. Standing between speakers...