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Brahms' Chorale Prelude, Herlich that mich verlangen, fared very well. This powerful, brooding work certainly does not deserve its long neglect. Mr. Reynolds duly emphasized its dark, half-dissonant harmonics...
Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
...Thursday night, went to the Ragged School," he wrote, "and an awful sight it is ... I have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over...
...colleges and universities may spend millions for research, but there is one subject they consistently neglect: themselves. It was not until 1949 that the Association of American Universities finally set up a twelve-man Commission* to make a thorough investigation of the financial crisis in U.S. higher education. Last week the commission's long-awaited final reports were published by Columbia University Press-Financing Higher Education in the United States, by the commission's Executive Director, Economist John D. Millett of Columbia, and the 'Nature and Needs of Higher Education, by the full commission...
Rather than incur these costs, students often neglect the examination and squint their way through to summer vacation where costs may be transferred to the family rather than college budget. While hesitancy may show financial acumen, it can wreak havoc with the eyes...