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...authentic human spirit. She also makes me laugh." And the smile in Hepburn's voice breaks into the chime of an unself-conscious laugh?for, surely, the woman being described is not only Ethel Thayer but Katharine Houghton Hepburn...
CLASSICAL: Concerto Castello; music of Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Bassano, Schmelzeer and Castello; Houghton Chapel; Friday...
Hundreds pass it every day, but only a handful have been inside, or even know what that small, elegant building between Widener and Lamont is called. Which is why Rodney Dennis, curator of manuscripts at the Houghton Library and amateur violist, decided to found a chamber music series...
...that neither Houghton Library nor the other two chamber music organizations that kicked off series last weekend made any effort to attract students to their audiences. Houghton's publicity consisted of subscription solicitations mailed to select members of the Harvard Community; the Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, which each year presents a series of free concerts in Paine Hall, postered apathetically in a few of the Houses; the only way one could have found out about the Apple Hill Chamber Player's Sunday night concert at the Longy school of Music (Garden Street between the Yard and the Quad) would have...
...once told H.R. Haldeman, regarding prospective cabinet appointments, "No goddamn Harvard men, you understand? Under no condition!" But perhaps Nixon will let bygones be bygones and start addressing the boxes for Cambridge. Harvard could do its part by promising to clear some room for Nixon in Houghton Library--perhaps near Leon Trotsky's papers. But even if Nixon chooses to look elsewhere, Harvard could, by asking for the papers, display some of the qualities Nixon so demonstrably lacked: magnanimity, tolerance, and sense of humor. No, Nixon probably won't give his papers to Harvard, but wherever they go, they should...