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...Left Bank, a fascinating study of writers, artists and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. Herbert Lottman shows--among other things--that Pasternak was right. Organization did living on, in a sense, the death of art; those writers who joined forces in the 1930s against the Nazis produced few lasting works, while the loners, like Jean-Paul Sartre or the anti-semitic Louis-Ferdinand Celine, continued to create masterworks. It is a disturbing correlation that Lottman serves up without comment for his reader to ponder...
Still, the American conductor faces special problems. In Europe, an extensive network of regional opera companies in cities such as Aachen and Graz has traditionally provided training for young conductors. Many of the greatest Europeans-Herbert von Karajan and the late Karl Böhm-learned their art this way. To be sure, the U.S. has its regional and community orchestras, but historically they have not led to posts with major organizations. Further, European record companies-like Philips of Holland-are willing to give young countrymen a push. Edo de Waart, 40, now music director of the San Francisco Symphony...
Last week, the President of Harvard's Board of Overseers--who should serve as suspicious watchdog of administration policies rather than as an accomplice--showed he has been recruited into the stalling maneuvers. Herbert P. Wilkins '51, a Massachusetts State Supreme Court Justice, blatantly contradicted a public statement he made last year promising the release of a long-awaited report on all facets of "friction" between Harvard and the city of Cambridge...
...kick against the coal companies," says 59-year-old disabled miner Herbert Charles. His hands are covered with scars from bouts with the timbers he used to place to shore up the mines' roofs, and he has black lung. His father and four brothers died of the disease but as he says. "If it weren't for the coal companies I would have had a real hard time finding...
Seven city councilors signed a letter to Board of Overseers President Herbert P. Wilkins '51, "protesting about several things they imagined Herb was doing," according to Robin Schmidt, vice president of community and government affairs for Harvard...