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But what a baseball player he is, and what a year it was, and what balm he brought to a nation that seemed to spend the year flaying its flesh. It may be true that Babe Ruth said, on being asked to justify his earning more money than Herbert Hoover...
NASA is taking no chances. It will power down any threatened spacecraft to avoid short circuits and will temporarily orient each one, says Riegler, "so that its strongest side faces the incoming Leonids." Even the Hubble Space Telescope will turn its back to the meteoroids, to shield the aperture through...
Yesterday afternoon, as the nation watched, one of our living legends blasted off into the heavens. Thirty-six years after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), now 77, has once again captured our hearts aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
From the opening of the Kyrie, the ensemble maintained an excellent balance. The orchestra's restrained style again suited the vocal lines. There was never the sense that the orchestra had to consciously play more quietly to preserve the primacy of the choir. To underscore the character of resignation and...
The Credo best exemplified Beethoven's gifts for text-painting. In a description of Christ's resurrection, the chorus vividly repeated the word "descendit," (he descended) in a motif that alternated between the orchestra and chorus. The forceful repetitions ended with a descending solo clarinet figure. This line, which was...