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DIED. Frederick Merk, 90, onetime head of the Harvard history department and author of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. From 1923 until his retirement in 1957, he taught a famous course-known to generations of students as "Wagon Wheels" or "Cowboys and Indians"-that traced the settlement of the American West...
...Menuhin's own rich humanity is made clear by such comments, his disarming idealism and fluent intelligence are equally manifest elsewhere. Whether he is describing (with unabashed pride) his efforts on behalf of Soviet dissidents or his defiance of apartheid, discoursing on acoustics, lauding Yoga and the wisdom of India with the divotion of discipleship, of opining on the different qualities of audiences around the world, one has the sense of sharing in the spontaneous conversation of an urbane and gracious friend...
...apparatchik declared that "Bahro's courage has earned him an honorable place in the history of the German workers' movement." Other officials were scarcely in agreement. Indeed, Bahro's broadcast has infuriated the East German leadership, which is determined to stamp out nonconformity, ranging from the manifest heresy of Bahro's book to mildly subversive rock-'n'-roll lyrics. Along with prison and harassment, East Germany's main weapon against protest is deportation. In the past few months, nearly two dozen ranking intellectuals and artists have been expelled from the country...
This shows at every level of his art. Motherwell's. manifest obsession with the Spanish Civil War, which began with The Little Spanish Prison, 1941-44, and continued through the famous series of Spanish Elegies, with their black tragic shapes on a white ground. is essentially a cultural matter. He spoke little Spanish, had no firsthand knowledge of Spain, but had been ravished by Lorca's poetry. Barbaric in closeup...
...fans, critics and allies alike were treated to a classic baseball game. Columbia, led by crafty hurler Rolando Acosta, defeated Harvard and Stewart, 3-1. Clutch hitting and run production were absent, but tenacity and confidence on the part of the Crimson were manifest. "We showed everyone what kind of a ballclub we were going to have," Park said. "The kids showed a ton of confidence here as they did all season long...