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...stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded, unable to get out even to go to the bathroom. During the first week, the only person who spoke to her was Donald DeFreeze (the self-styled General Field Marshal Cinque of the S.L.A.), who, according to the affidavit, repeatedly threatened to kill her. De-Freeze also recorded her early tapes, in which she assured her family that she was all right...
...year periods come from other universities--usually during a paid sabbatical since the center's finances allow few stipends to visiting scholars, no matter how expert or promising. For their travelling the visitors are rewarded, occupying cubicles right down the corridor from luminaries such as Abram Bergson and Marshal Goldman, experts on the Soviet economy, and even Ulam himself...
...Kampala last week easily lived up-or down-to expectations. "I will not embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates who had come to Kampala for serious business...
...Natasha. That and the next six scenes depict, with a mixture of passion, intrigue and despair, the decadent social life of prewar Russia. The last six scenes are devoted to the French invasion of 1812. Napoleon struts nervously (to the accompaniment of diabolic fanfares in brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will be wounded with all the strength of Russia"). There is little continuity in the libretto written by Prokofiev and his second wife. Prokofiev was dramatizing only a series of focal points in the story that...
When Galbraith was on campus recently, his colleagues gave him a portable electric typewriter as a retirement present. Last week he received another tribute from the Harvard and Radcliffe senior classes, which chose him as their Class Day faculty speaker. Said Class Marshal Harden Wiedemann: "He is respected because of his scholastic endeavor, but more than that, though he is not often available to students, when he is, he is totally devoted to them." In his Class Day speech Galbraith himself chose to "reflect on the 41 years that I have been at Harvard, or, as some of my colleagues...