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...want to add that Pat does too. It's my feeling too, that the party should not be led by extremists of the right or the left, but that we should lend it from the middle. I hasten to a ld, and I hope this remark will not be misunderstood, that I have always considered my position a middle ground...
Conducting, Scherchen contends, is a misunderstood art, and he accepts only students who agree to devote three years to learning his technique. He never takes more than four at a time. They travel everywhere with "Herr Doktor," as they reverently call him, taking lessons at intermissions, in taxis and restaurants. Scherchen, who at eleven knew all of Beethoven's music by heart, insists that before taking baton in hand, a student must have the score indelibly branded on his memory. Then the gestures will follow naturally...
...Jacqueline, a daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothschild, is a busy painter, sometime bassoon player, and alltime chess addict who ranks as one of the top ten women players in the U.S. Gregor counters with writing (he has written an autobiography), oceanography and herpetology ("Snakes are so misunderstood...
Poor old Euripides shuddered in his urn again last night while a curiously halting and pigeon-toed bevy of our too-familiar Loebsters murdered Aegisthus, Clytemnestra and his play as well. He should be used to short shrift by now, though, after centuries of being mistranslated, misplayed and misunderstood...
...Goldwater's backers were aghast at the appointment of a political amateur whose sole experience had been as counsel to the Arizona state Republican committee. Says Kitchel of such criticism: "I'm inclined to think that the term 'professional' in politics has been a little misunderstood, or misused. As I see it, this is mostly a matter of common sense and judgment...