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...creative heyday, Gian Carlo Menotti, 83, was noted more for his dark, neo-Puccini operas, such as The Saint of Bleecker Street and The Medium, than for comedy or farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum-in-aspic city of Charleston, South Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including...
...that of Apple and one-fourteenth that of IBM. But software is vastly more profitable than hardware. Apple makes 3.3% profit on every dollar of sales, compared with nearly 25% for Microsoft. In some respects, the power Microsoft wields over the computer industry may exceed IBM's in its heyday...
...group didn't improvise as extravagantly as in their heyday--when Page was prone to playing his guitar with a violin bow during 30-minute renditions of "Dazed and Confused." But there were several occasions when Page stole the spotlight, doing guitar takeoffs from the recorded score...
...this isn't your father's university. It's the new generation of Harvard. Our football teams today are not exactly the equal of the Rose-Bowl-winning squad of 75 years ago. Once a power in college football, the Ivy League has been losing ground ever since its heyday in the late 1800s. The rise in bigtime college athletics elsewhere accelerated Harvard's decline, which today's Division I-AA status attests...
...fans know that Harvard in its heyday was a veritable football powerhouse, winning national championships in 1890, 1910, 1912 and 1913. Harvard gridders were Rose Bowl champions...