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...other campuses, students in the middle have simply wearied of disruptions that constantly interrupt their costly education. Items...
They are usually high baritones who take time off in their late 20s or 30s to ac quire a tenor's range and build up their voice. But careers move so fast now adays that few singers can afford to interrupt them. The result, says Melchior, is that "the breed has practically vanished." Most of the tenors who attempt these heroic roles are a bit jugendlich (youthful-sounding). Meantime, great dramatic sopranos like Birgit Nilsson are Isoldes in search of Tristans, and some of Wagner's finest music is scant ed in the repertory...
Neither of its opponents this week--Princeton and Yale--figures to be a threat to Harvard's seven-game winning streak, but one could interrupt its improvement by turning the contests into slip-shod affairs...
...bizarre idea for peeling sheep occurred to Geneticist Clair E. Terrill while he was studying the results of experiments with anti-cancer drugs. In tended to halt the growth of cells in malignant tumors, the drugs were also found to interrupt cell growth in the hair roots of test animals - including sheep - causing them to lose their hair temporarily...
Glamour, image and sex appeal are not his bag. At a rehearsal, he is one plain musician talking to others. He may interrupt the music to say, "Take some of that color out of the A flat," or "Make this more crescendo." But he never indulges in exhibitionism or talkfests, which often earn other conductors only the scorn of their players. At a concert, he makes few flourishes in the direction of the audience. "I have no patience," he says, "with those conductors who, though their backs are physically turned to the spectators, spiritually face the ticketholders in an expressionist...