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...technique re-created these spirits of him amazingly ... I can't but write this comfortable excitement caused by your impressive recital." Thus a Japanese music fan paid his tribute to one of the most widely traveled of U.S. performers: 30-year-old Pianist Eugene Istomin (rhymes with hissed omen). In one way or another, critics at home and abroad have been saying much the same thing about Pianist Istomin for the last decade. Already approaching full maturity at a time when many a young pianist is still feeling out technique, Istomin again carries his musical reputation abroad this week...
Lightning flashed, a clap of thunder shattered the air and the lights in a crowded courthouse at Blois (pop. 26,774) flickered out. The superstitious in the audience considered this manifestation something of an omen. There on trial for murder stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter...
McKay's way of campaigning was to call Folsom "one of the foremost supporters of the N.A.A.C.P." His victory was a grim political omen that would put little heart into the beleaguered moderates of the Deep South...
While the announcement does not give a definite promise that Lamont will immediately begin to meet the needs of the students it serves, the statement is a good omen to those who must use its facilities. The financial problem represents a sizable stumbling-block, but could be partially overcome if students were allowed to replace regular employees at the checkout desks during the extended hours. Many job-seeking undergraduates would welcome the chance to work at times when classes do not meet...
...them, but events that stir the emotions to violence, that engages us in what is direct and immediate and real, and events that involve the concepts and sanctions that are the order of our lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this situation, what is the poet's role? To cherish imagination not as escape from reality but as "the necessary angel" by whose shaping grace man's need to make sense of reality is fulfilled. Nobility must be expressed, wrote Wallace Stevens...