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...Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; 723 pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
Sometimes the system works and turns out efficient next-generation salarymen. But as some of these children reach adulthood, they begin to ask questions for which this narrowest of training provides no answers. The word for them then is majime, whose direct translation is earnest. They are in search of meaning but unequipped with the tools normally used to discern it. They grasp at any world vision they are offered. ufos perhaps; perhaps fortune telling, channeling, yoga or mind control. Once lured, they pursue their new faith with the stupendous energy of the lost...
Junior Sarah Barber picked up yet another first-place finish for Harvard, winning the high jump event. Barber edged out three other opponents by the narrowest of margins, taking the event with a height of 5-6. Barber's jumps earned her an invitation to the ECAC's as well...
BOSTON--By the narrowest of margins, Massachusetts citizens seemed to have voted yesterday to abolish rent control, a fixture of--Cambridge life for a quarter-century...
...strange turn of events, the Clinton Administration will challenge a court ruling that said the Pentagon's old policy toward gays was unconstitutional. The appeal, which avoids the constitutional aspects of excluding gays from the military, is based on the narrowest technical grounds: whether it is within the purview of the court to order the Pentagon to commission Midshipman Joseph Steffan, an admitted homosexual. The White House says it must challenge the ruling in order to ultimately defend its new and slightly more liberal "Don't ask, don't tell" policy when, as expected, it meets with legal challenges...