Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...
...interjects, "This is my favorite: 'For evildoers shall be cut off. ' With a big t before the 'off.' Crisp as a knife." He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance...
...start of the Nunc Dimittis. But then, suddenly, everyone is there. You can hear the blend, unmistakably. They sing through the rest of the service as one choir, from the foundation of Buswell's subdued bass on up to the surging descants of the soprano line. The 22-note "Amen" dances down like the leaves in the streets outside. For a few moments, it is possible to feel ordinary people lift themselves up into the communion of saints and the cloud of witnesses...
...Editor's Note: The phrase Pyhrric victory was not inspired by the Peloponnesian War but by the disastrous strategies of the Greek king Pyhrrus in his war against the Romans in the Italian region of Magna Graecia...
...potentially sour note for Harvard is the uncertainty surrounding former assistant Coach Zoran Tulum. The Yugoslav fencer worked with the Crimson as a volunteer a year ago, but has been unable to attain a visa to return to the United States this year...