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...choice of very quick tempi, he tossed off the flying octaves, thirds, and arpeggios with impeccable clarity and accuracy. Only in Op. 10, no. 4, did the racing notes melt into an indistinguishable blur. In every case he clearly solved the problem of extracting the melodic line from a morass of notes and floating it above the cleanly formed accompaniment. His facility was most clearly demonstrated in the familiar "Aeolian Harp" Etude where the simple tune--played entirely by the pinky of the right hand--holds forth against a feathery arpeggiated figure. Success here requires no more than complete control...
...THIS morass can be traced back to the original rationale of the protest. The demonstration was naturally tied to the demand that the University invest its assets with a social conscience. Like their counterparts at Harvard, the B.U. SDS attacked their University for its holding in Middle South Utilities, arguing that under the cover of "neutrality" the University was supporting repressive institutions. But the specific attack on Gordon involved a second, more radical premise--that the University couldn't accept a bad man's money, even for uses of its own. The reasoning leads down a path to nihilism...
...year by John Connally. Abruptly last week the maverick Democrat appeared on 26 Texas television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice. The U.S., he said, must abandon all of its commitments abroad, become a neutralist nation and henceforth leave attempts to solve the world's headaches to the Communists. McLendon will hardly be missed in the Texas race: ten other Democrats...
...Representative Wilbur C. Mills, who may have kept America from sinking farther into a British-like welfare-state morass-and saved the value of our dollar. (MRS.) PATRICIA C. PEACOCK Kailua, Hawaii...
...page report made no qualitative judgments from its morass of statistics, but Harvard did emerge as the leader in more fields than any other college or university...