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...marked the apex of Harvard's crisis, but for me and my family it was just beginning. That summer, while the family was visiting relatives in Los Angeles, President Pusey flew there for an odd and dramatic meeting with my father. On a park bench, with a nearby jack-hammer eliminating the possibility of an eavesdropper, Pusey asked him to become Dean of the College...
Only Suspect. San Francisco police found a blood-stained claw hammer and a pair of bloody scissors, along with a bloodstained shirt and pair of slacks, in a cardboard box on the porch of Eben's apartment. Eben, police believe, argued with his sister over $5,000 that was due her shortly from her mother's estate, saying that he wanted the money to go to Spain. The police theorize that when she refused him the money, he killed her. "Eben Gossage is our only suspect at this point," said Homicide Inspector Kenneth Mannly. Grim argues that...
...best performances at Harvard have been of the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance. He has always showed marvelous sensitivity to those flowing vocal lines and fluid rhythms. But he had some real problems in coping with the Mozart Mass. His right-hand-only style of conducting with a hammer-like delivery of each beat led to disconcerting accents on each quarter-note. Mozart's long phrases were broken up as the music chugged along...
...LONG AFTER the Edelin jury heard the last of Judge McGuire's instructions and left the courtroom to seek a verdict, a harried prosecutor New man Flanagan tried once more to hammer out some of the complex issues of the Commonwealth's case. For Flanagan, the trial was over. Instead of jurors he faced a dozen or so reporters, some standing beside the empty benches, some sitting in the jury box itself. But while he waited for the sequestered jury to come in with a verdict the prosecutor continued to wrestle with the reporters' questions about his version of what...
French Neo-Romantic Music of Poulenc, Jaffanel, Barthe, and bert; piano and wind ensemble with Steven Hammer; Kirkland JCR; 8:30; free...