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Just the other night this happened in Winthrop House, which is usually so crowded around the dinner hour that you need a shoe horn to get in, when suddenly Bob Baggott swooped in from behind the salad bar and jumped on the glass. First down, Harvard...
...compared to their incredibly bad 1975 performance of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, the French composer was treated with kid gloves in the concert's opening work, his Roman Carnival Overture. Terry Maskin, who was outstanding in the 1976 Harvard Summer School Orchestra, showed similar mastery in the tricky English horn solo, and the trombones cut through the string filigree passages with round sonority. Even the upper string intonation was not excessively distressing, and the forte passages seemed to herald a new, aggressive, full-bodied ensemble sound...
Resplendent in a purple, lace-cuffed outfit, tricornered hat and horn-rims, he looked like a happy straggler from a Bicentennial parade. But no, that was Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 67, manning the battlements on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay last week. Called back to active duty to help restage the Battle of St. Michaels, in which American artillerymen beat off an attack by British ships during the War of 1812, retired U.S. Ah" Force Major General Goldwater took command of the defenses, fired off a few ceremonial cannon-and considered the meaning...
...novel Deliverance. North Carolina's Sam Ervin lent the campaign his Old Testament eloquence. "Let us not dam the New River," he said. "I use the word dam in the sense of ruining the New River from now until the last notes of Gabriel's horn tremble into silence, because we cannot use the New River after it has been dammed...
Susan Lyman labels the differences between the Bunting and Horner years as one of style. "Matina is not a person who has bought the national PR approach. We want to do a good job and we aren't anxious to blow our horn," she says...