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...more modern Mathis der Mahler. They cheered for Eduard van Beinum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra when it played The Rite of Spring and for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's new Reflection, liked Tyrone Guthrie's production of an 18th century ballad opera, The Highland Fair...
...worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have come a varied bunch of visitors, including a novelist in flight from the tax collectors, a journalist, a Greek professor...
...Smugglers. Glenlivet men have been cutting Faemussach peat since 1824, when Grant's great-grandfather, George Smith, took out a license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist...
Education: High school at Highland Park, Ill.; at West Point graduated 111th in a class...
...your Dec. 24 article, "Piping the Milk": That rumbling sound is my Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...