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Franz Liszt's Greatest Hits of the 1 850s (Jorge Bolet pianist; RCA, $5.98). Considering the lethargy of the classical-record business these days, RCA may be forgiven for dressing this LP in the sales-proven "greatest hits" garb. For in this 40-minute collection of piano transcriptions by the granddaddy of all transcribers, Bolet has come up with what will surely be one of the piano records of the year. Liszt's Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor or Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto requires a fusion of talents comparable to those of an expert novelist who is also...
Reporters can be forgiven. So entrancing is her exterior that it is hard to look much further. Even her directors, some of Europe's best, almost gush when they talk about her. "Dominique has charm and allure that are outside of our time today," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who directed her in The Conformist. He compares her to F. Scott Fitzgerald heroines, who destroyed men with their reckless charm...
...which may be renewed so long as the graduate remains in a low-income situation. Applications for post-ponement of payment are to be decided on the basis of Federal income tax returns. If any indebtedness remains after 13 years, the graduate may apply to have the loan "forgiven," with all repayment obligation cancelled...
...jeopardize your credibility or mine by making me sound too good. I have, as you know, a generous measure of faults, weaknesses and errors. As De Gaulle once said: "Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." I confess to all the faults De Gaulle describes. I only hope they can be turned to worthwhile ends...
...inspiration: drilling the crew in riflery to repel prospective boarders, trying to lay on the young seamen some sort of religious inspiration, holding sessions about the strategic purpose of the war. The disobeying of orders to get near the enemy, too - how often have such devices been tried, and forgiven afterward when they were successful, by such naval heroes as Robert Mitchum and John Wayne...