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...Harvard golf team traveled to the lush green grass and tumultous waterfalls of Ithaca, N.Y., and came back with more than just suntanned faces and uplifted spirits. In their best match of the year, the golfers downed Cornell...
...dead and a village with its inhabitants was suspended between heaven and earth during half a day; then it was swallowed up." So wrote the Arab historian Jellal As-Soyuti about an earthquake in medieval Persia. Last week his apocalyptic description again became reality for the people of the lush Qir valley 560 miles south of Teheran...
Ravel's mistakes were often egregious. He allowed himself to be caught up in extravagant romanticism, in over-orchestrating, in lush overstatement where simple instrumentation would have sufficed. But, like the little girl in the Mother Goose rhyme, when he was good, he was very, very good...
When Erich Maria Remarque died a year and a half ago at the age of 72, one thought of old films rather than old books. Lush Dmitri Tiomkin sound tracks seemed to leap from the obituaries to strike Remarque's patented theme: grand passion, grand despair in wartime. In one's stereophonic memory chambers, violins throbbed counterpoint to far-off guns and the crumpled-velvet whispers of thwarted lovers. It is as if Remarque's art were defined by one of those overstylized love scenes in Arch of Triumph between Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman...
Constant Harassment Pakistan, on the other hand, has much to gain if it can wrest the disputed province, particularly the lush and fabled Vale, from Indian control. Strategically, the region is extremely important, bor dering on both China and Afghanistan as well as India and Pakistan. More over, Kashmir's population is predominantly Moslem...