Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, some critics were complaining about the publicity blitz. Said Robert Michel, No. 2 House Republican: "We have been asked to wait for phone calls that never come and detailed briefings that never materialize. Meanwhile, the President and his top negotiators are saturating the air waves with praise for the agreement...
...alone. For several years, many students have criticized Southern's alleged neglect of Pan-Africanist perspectives in Afro course offerings, charging that the chairman wants to firmly establish an "Americo-oriented" approach to academic research in the department. Last year's decisions to withhold tenure from Isaac and Pierre-Michel Fontain, former lecturer on Afro-American Studies--both recognized Pan-Africanists--have been attributed directly to Southern's influence, and Afro concentrators Peter Hardie '77 and Bruce Jacobs '77 attacked these policies in a January 18 opinion piece in The Crimson...
...Prime Minister's Ottawa office said that "because of Margaret's wishes" to "leave the marriage and pursue an independent career" the couple "will begin living separately and apart." According to the announcement, "Pierre will have custody of their three children [Justin, 5, Alexandre, 3, and Michel, 1½], giving Margaret generous access to them." Whether divorce will follow is uncertain, since both are Roman Catholics (Margaret by conversion). "Both pray," the statement concluded, "that their separation will lead to a better relationship between themselves...
Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...
...feathers soaring through space in split leaps. The firebird most people have in mind, unconsciously or not, is Maria Tallchief, for whom George Balanchine created a dazzling version of the Stravinsky score in 1949. But Balanchine was not Stravinsky's first collaborator. In 1910 the composer and Choreographer Michel Fokine had worked out their conception at the piano...