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...Cesar Pelli, and send their children to schools conceived by Architects Harry Weese, Eliot Noyes and John Warnecke. Along with the distinctive new structures, the spirit and pride of Columbus have risen as well. All over town, old commercial buildings and residences are being fully restored. As Mayor Max Andress puts it, "A sense of quality has rubbed off all over Columbus...
...incident colored the rest of her life. Archibald Christie, a chilly, willful man, remarried anyway. Agatha spent the next years mostly out of England, traveling in remote parts of the Middle East until she found a kinder husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. She began to create a series of lonely, high-strung heroines, and soon fashioned a sleuth, Jane Marple, whose method of detection is based on solid premises: appearances are misleading and to trust is to be deceived...
...plot. Her ideas began as a couple of random images: "Girl and not really sister-August." Contrary to popular belief, writing was never easy for the author of 68 books. She fretted for weeks before getting into a novel and required constant expressions of reassurance from Sir Max. "I got very tired, and I also got cross," she states at one point. "Writing has that effect, I find...
...educational training to live in these two worlds. If they find Africa almost impossible, they will definitely make it in the western world. Some of these intellectuals see the African question as unsolvable, but they have never reached for the impossible, reminiscent of the words of a German sociologist, Max Weber, who asserts that...
...next work, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, the orchestra was joined by soloist Stephen Chan. The concerto includes the traditional three movements; the first has something of the quality of a dramatic dialogue, alternating the tragic declamation of the solo instrument with the orchestra's solemn thunder. Chan played with technical elan but a rather lifeless tone that occasionally made it hard to distinguish him from the rest of the orchestra. But he was more in command of the languorous Adagio which followed. This exquisite lamentation is less a dialogue than a duet, with...