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...HARVARD GROUP FOR NEW MUSIC is a crusader for the performance and reception of contemporary music. The group's concert last Saturday night, which included works by Burton, Dautricourt, MacMillan, and Ives, showed that the battle is by no means won; even one of the evening's performers half-jokingly confided, "I'll be amazed if you like this; I know I don't." But at least he, like an increasing number of Harvard community members, was interested enough to take a first step toward modern music. And despite his words, the concert proved both commendable in the level...
Harvard Group for New Music. Works of Dautricourt, MacMillan, Burton and Ives played by Stephen Drury on the piano at 8:30 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Free...
...might be unfit for the presidency because of their "raging hormonal influences." Unchastened, the Maryland doctor-author, who limits his practice these days to a few old friends, including Senator Hubert Humphrey,* has now taken on a new adversary. In an outrageously satiric book titled The Solid Gold Stethoscope (Macmillan; $7.95), he lays open the foibles and failings of his fellow doctors...
...Macmillan was not the first to offer such a solution to Britain's problems. Ever since the pound took its disastrous nosedive during the last days of September-thereby forcing James Callaghan's Labor government to ask for yet another $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund-Britons have been treated to a Cassandra's chorus of elder statesmen appealing for a government of national unity...
Dose of Escapism. In somewhat more veiled fashion, former Prime Minister Edward Heath said much the same thing as Macmillan at the Tories' conference in Brighton earlier this month. Another former Tory minister, Lord Hailsham, recently called for nothing less than scrapping the ancient parliamentary system ("an elective dictatorship") and replacing it with an American-style written constitution...