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...body of interpretation has been raised on the traditional grayness of the Sistine frescoes. For Michelangelo was primarily a sculptor. He himself said so, especially when complaining that he had been forced to paint the Sistine, instead of getting on with the tomb for his tyrannous, charismatic patron, Pope Julius II. "I've grown a goiter at this drudgery," a poem of his on the matter begins, and finishes with the lines...
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, "Trout" (Emanuel Ax, piano, with members of the Guarneri Quartet and Julius Levine, double bass); Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Guarneri Quartet with Julius Levine; RCA). Schubert's ineffable "Trout" Quintet, so named for its use of the composer's song The Trout as the basis of the fourth movement, is one of the glories of the chamber-music repertory, beloved of pianists and string players (and audiences) everywhere for its grace, wit and warmth. Ax's sensitive, full- toned pianism and the Guarneri's rich ensemble are perfectly matched here, to each other...
Then why are most Americans unfamiliar with it? For one thing, the bacterium that causes chlamydia could not be easily isolated and studied until 1965. "The bugs couldn't be grown in the laboratory, and people don't want to work with things that are difficult," says Julius Schachter, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Then, too, the presence of chlamydial infections until recently could be detected only by a complicated laboratory test that took up to seven days to complete and was offered at few medical centers in the U.S. As a result, chlamydia was rarely...
...Sears buyer, Brennan was the youngest of three contenders for the job of president. That had been expected to be a handicap at sometimes conservative Sears, but two towering figures in Sears' history, Julius Rosenwald and General Robert Wood, were younger than Brennan when they took over. To help celebrate the occasion, Telling ordered out for a no-frills Sears executive lunch. The menu: pepperoni-and-sausage pizza...
...Games begin, an expected audience of -is it possible? - 2 billion plus, over half the people on earth, will be able to judge what ABC has achieved with all that money and exertion. Never in TV history have so many events been covered over so vast an area. Says Julius Barnathan, head of ABC's broadcast operations and engineering...