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Died. Sir William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 72, nineteenth Baron Sempill and Baronet of Nova Scotia, a Royal Air Force officer and Air Ministry adviser until his retirement in 1941; of a stroke; in Edinburgh, Scotland. His death poses unprecedented problems of succession, since the claimant to the baronetcy is Younger Brother Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 53, born and raised as a female until 1952, when she legally changed name (from Elizabeth) and sex following hormone treatments...
...chief defect of the concert was the atrocious choice of music. (I know some habitual concertgoers who decided to skip this one when they saw the program.) Three of the four selections were late nineteenth century romantic, and the fourth--though written later--was largely in that style. Now it is good to have some sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program...
...pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst of a passage on why divorce is necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
...fourth-place Dave Allen at 22:39, six Harvard men were among the first 11 to complete the 4.6-mile Franklin Park course. Ran Langenbach placed sixth in 22:48. Robert Stempson finished seventh, Joseph Ryan eighth, Jon Chaffee tenth, Jim Baker eleventh, and Clive Kileff nineteenth...
From the script alone I couldn't tell whose side Giraudoux was on. And I wasn't even left with that everybody-loses-most-of-the-time wistfulness one feels at the end of most of those. Nineteenth Century demi-tragedies where everybody loses. My only strong emotion was that Lucille was a pretty stupid girl...