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...nearly all of Harvard's best student string players. Their work in the difficult Poulenc piece was very solid: the occasional lapse in pitch during the high accompaniment passages was understandable. Poulenc juxtaposes short lyrical passages with pounding tuttis. The violius were especially sensitive to their phrasing in the gentler moments: but their lead was not followed by Johnson. Nonetheless, the performance was tremendously exciting--especially at the recapitulation of the opening chords that closes the work. The Poulenc deserves to be heard more often. Like the Saint-Saens Third Symphonyor Jongen Sinfonie Concertante, the scoring of organ and orchestra...
...troublesome bee in the first place. In 1956 Warwick Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist in the state of Sāo Paulo, decided to breed the perfect honey-producing bee. He wanted to combine the best attributes of the hard-working but highly aggressive African bee (Apis mellifera adansonii) with gentler but lazier European strains. Before the hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees accidentally escaped, mated with native bees, flourished and spread. The offspring, known as Brazilian honey bees, are precisely what Kerr wanted to avoid; they have inherited none of the redeeming qualities of European bees, while keeping...
...lead to lynchings in the streets if the death penalty were abolished. All change causes difficulties and dislocation, but this is not necessarily a reason to deter otherwise desirable progress. If it is conceded that man is not totally limited by his animal origins, that he can grow gentler and more humane, then it follows that death will some day join torture as a prohibited form of punishment...
...Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of William F. Buckley and, along with Buckley's sister Patricia, an editor of Triumph magazine. Triumph's editorial support of such activism caused William Buckley last week to write that "such analyses discredit the anti-abortion position." It is the gentler arts of persuasion, so far, that have won some victories for the anti-abortion forces. Liberalized abortion has been thwarted either in the courts or legislatures in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, North and South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky and Massachusetts...
...sweet-sour, sometimes thunderous eloquence of the Beatles at their best; the psychedelic star shells launched by the Jefferson Airplane soared over the Beelzebub beat and leer of the Rolling Stones. And now, suddenly, the '70s have brought a startling change. Over the last year a far gentler variety of rock sound has begun to soothe the land...