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Perhaps because the much assaulted U.S. ear is wearying of clamorous modern dissonances, audiences seem to be falling in love all over again with the more placid sonorities of the 18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week...
Please tell me the name of the startled young lady with Adlai Stevenson. I strongly suspect it is my long-lost wife, last seen taking care of our two daughters before the Democratic Convention...
...most impressive offensive display since returning from the spring trip, the varsity baseball team yesterday discovered its long-lost batting eye, belting out 14 hits in a convincing 11-7 triumph over M.I.T...
Some 2,700 of Dartmouth's 2,800 undergraduates had dates for the weekend, however, and a party that big just couldn't be kept completely private. Although all fraternities officially demanded both dates and guest cards as admission certificates, it was occassionally possible to discover a long-lost friend inside
...since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral unity . . . There is now a new spirit in our two nations, seeking closer economic and cultural relations...