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Oriental Art Lecture: Alexander Soper. 8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
¶ Blamed "politics" for his troubles with committee, public and press. "Frankly. I like to meet important people. Is that so bad? In the country where I was born, it took two or three generations for a 'poor man' to get to know important people . . . Nor did I...
One of the most prolific composers in the recent history of opera was British-born (of French descent) Piano Virtuoso Eugène d'Albert. In a career otherwise occupied with six marriages, teaching and lucrative concert tours, he managed to compose 20 musical melodramas, ending with a preposterous...
Out of these squalid though sometimes cruelly moving episodes, Yozo emerges with a stoic creed-"Everything passes." Almost alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might...
The Rhythm Section. To feel Gulbenkian's anger, an acquaintance once said, was "to know the electric chair without death." The danger signal was an open-palmed slap, slap, slap on the bald dome, often followed by the saliva-flecked roar, "You are a broken reed I" If Gulbenkian...