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One of his favorite rooms in the White House is a small private study a few steps down the hall from his ova! office. Heavy green curtains keep the sunlight out; the phone is muted to reduce noise. Here, under a pair of frontier paintings and a wooden eagle with...
First on the program was the Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 violas and cello (1958) of Roger Sessions. The work is in three movements, nominally conforming to the standard fast-slow-fast alternation of classical sonatas. The first ("Movimento tranquillo") seemed to be written for violin solo with string accompaniment...
MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? AND OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE, by Graham Greene. The sex is muted and slightly mellowed by years, which is not necessarily bad-at least it isn't in these twelve amusing and smoothly told short stories.
Ten years later the arguments for Brookline-Elm have not disappeared and its advocates in Cambridge have not evaporated. Some, like the Planning Board and its director, Alan McClennen, have been muted by political pressures. Others have been converted by new arguments and new facts.
Comparisons were irresistible, but as the week's performances emphasized, Bruhn and Nureyev are not really comparable. Bruhn, a mature 38, has polished his classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he...