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...came under attack, she was frequently portrayed as a latter-day Empress Wu Tse-t'ien, whose career began in the 7th century as a 13-year-old court concubine and ended in an orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei. With characteristic Chinese panache, he built a summer palace for her with 16 bathing pools, where the lady was wont to wash her statuesque limbs under the Emperor's besotted gaze...
...even within his own specialty, of lyric singing, Pavarotti cannot match many of hs predecessors. For all its ease, the voice simply does not have the sheer beauty of a Gigli or a Caruso or a Tagliavini. These were "golden voices"; the sound was not light and thin, but light and full, with richness and texture to the sounds they produced; they soothed and caressed your ears. Pavarotti's voice is pretty, but not as startlingly beautiful...
...they are calling for struck me as I talked with Cole in a restaurant here. He sat, sipping a large Bloody Mary and philosophizing about how man is out of touch with nature, and how urban man's loss of the rational base of nature has led to all hs dangerous quirks. I, the urban student, slurped my cup of coffee, firing questions at him about the feasibility of what he is proposing. After the interview I went back to my temporary room in a Harvard dorm and he returned to his roots in Maine...
...Yale; 2. Wisconsin; 3. Radcliffe; 4. Dartmouth; 5. Princeton; 6. Cornell; 7. Brown; 8. Williams; 9. MIT; 10. Connecticut College; 11. Virginia; 12. Middletown (Conn.) HS. Junior Varsity...
There is none of M*A*S*Hs can-the-caduceus flippancy about Rogers-as-businessman. His investment philosophy, say his clients, is strictly "traditionalist." So is Rogers. Born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III, the son of a wealthy lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., Rogers in his youth was suitably Southern-comfortable: "I drank beer, chased girls and drove fast cars." Sent to a boarding school for "Southern incorrigibles" in Bell Buckle, Tenn., Rogers finally buckled down and eventually graduated from Princeton with honors...