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...maintained such an iron grip on audience affections that even indisputable 20th century masterworks have been neglected in favor of the millionth performance of the Beethoven, Brahms or Tchaikovsky concertos. It has not helped that some compositions of the '50s and '60s amounted to teeth-grinding assaults on the instrument that made both soloists and audiences recoil...
...times are changing, and not a moment too soon. "The violin is being looked at again as a great singing instrument," says Virtuoso Isaac Stern, 65. "It is no longer being beaten, plucked, forced and squeezed." Perhaps as a result, the American orchestral scene has lately been a festival of new violin concertos...
...class includes students from a variety of concentrations. Most members of the course study outside of the Music Department. "Majors don't have anything to do with musical interest," says Pierce, a history concentrator. Though most Harvard music courses require proficiency with at least one musical instrument, Tcherepnin does not enforce this. Instead, the music professor says he looks for students who are open-minded, curious, and interested in learning. Pierce says she first discovered the course a few years ago when a friend brought her up to the electronic music studio on the third floor of Paine Hall. After...
...each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find and identify targets had been fed into the F-111s' computers...
...confirm that a patient has endometriosis, doctors look for the telltale tissue by peering into the pelvic cavity with a fiber-optic instrument called a laparoscope. After diagnosis, a number of treatments can be prescribed. One is pregnancy--if it is still feasible; the nine-month interruption of menstruation can help shrink misplaced endometrial tissue. Taking birth- control pills may also help, but more effective is a drug called danazol, a synthetic male hormone that stops ovulation and causes endometrial tissue to shrivel. But it can also produce acne, facial-hair growth, weight gain and other side effects...