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Never more so than in Hadleigh Castle, 1829. Constable brought to his view of the castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image...
...Angeles Philharmonic. With a conductor like Carlo Maria Giulini, 68, an annual budget of $17 million and record appearances on Deutsche Grammophon, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has the credentials for membership in the elect. Its sound is far from the brilliance of Chicago or St. Louis; Giulini, the eminent Italian conductor, has based the sonority he wants on the lower strings, giving the orchestra a deep, dark tone. Instead of the flashy, glittery ensemble one might expect to find in Los Angeles, the Philharmonic is a sober, serious orchestra. Like Giulini, it is at its best in the romantic...
...BORN. To Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 27, older daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos, and Tomas Manotoc, 33, divorced amateur sportsman whom she married in Virginia 16 months ago: their first child, a son (he has two children by a previous marriage that under Philippine law is indissoluble); in Honolulu. Name: Fernando Martin. Weight: 6 Ibs. 8 oz. Her parents were bitterly opposed to the romance because of his marital status, and the couple had lived largely apart. But in March they went to Hawaii so that the baby could be born...
Loonin came to Cambridge largely thanks to junior tennis standout Maria Pe, who has been a close friend since childhood. Loonin has not regretted her decision, she feels she has matured with the team over the past two years...
...That Maria is ashamed of her heritage in part disappoints because the truth in the cliche is not supplemented by the quirky and stimulating observations Davies offers elsewhere. The need of the intellectual to "farce out" the essential, the orthodox and the ritual in life, as cooks work at the "extending and amplifying of a dish with other, complementary elements" is a central theme of the novel. It forms the basis for a plea for the introduction of intellectual vitality into religious life, and in a broader sense, becomes a justification for the Humanities--a concern which many modern universities...