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Died. Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...
...great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper. Then again, he might use an empty corner to jot down a scientific observation or a moral speculation in his strange, backward-running "mirror handwriting...
Dunlop said Monday he would like to see the Faculty endorse the report in principle, section by section, deleting or rewording any recommendation that members find objectionable. "That commits nobody to every jot and tiddle of the report and gives the Faculty a chance for a more general discussion on questions like the economic restraints on expansion...
...city government has been reorganized to follow the simpler federal outline, and advanced techniques of systems analysis are being applied to bureaucratic procedures that had not changed by more than a jot in a century. Still in dire need of money, the city's budget has been brought in line with income. Thanks to Wagner's custom of floating long-term loans to pay current operating expenses, New York had "rainy...
HENRIK: This Williams roars and whines and nothing more. There is not a jot of rhapsody in him. "I had gone about all these years," my Master Builder says, "torturing myself with the effort to recover something--some experience which I seemed to have forgotten"--and Williams pronounces those sacred words as though he were a handbill about soap. Veritas indeed...