Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dual meet tabulation of the afternoon's events, Harvard beat Yale, 23-35, and Princeton, 27-32, stretching its perfect mark to 9-0, a record which does not include Tuesday's Greater Boston Championships. In 1957 Harvard also went through the dual season undefeated, but lost to Cornell in the Heps...
...Ivan Galamian, home-grown instruction has turned into a near industry. The most famous Oriental string teacher is Japan's Shinichi Suzuki, 70, whose revolutionary start-'em-young technique produced tiny Miss Kasuya-one of a group of Suzuki prodigies now touring the U.S.-and her note-perfect Mozart. Suzuki's Talent Education Institute, founded in 1946, takes in pupils at the age of three, subjects them first to an intensive course in ear training, technique and performance by rote from recordings, and later to such refinements as note reading. While the course is designed only...
Says Conductor Ozawa: "After the war, you could find little grocery stores in the Japanese countryside selling cheap violins side by side with candy bars. The people needed an outlet, and music was the perfect thing." Violins were easier to make than brass or woodwind instruments. Moreover, the stringed instruments were physically ideal for the Orientals: their nimble fingers, so proficient in delicate calligraphy and other crafts, adapted easily to the demands of the fingerboard...
...show was well salted with hilarious vignettes of the beauty world. A beauty-counter huckster romanced his customers ("You would be the perfect type for Ultima"), a mincing makeup man proclaimed, "You now look as if you worshiped at the shrine of Aphrodite." One cosmetics-department manager confided: "If a product sold for 15?-a face cream-we could not give it away, we couldn't sell it for 15?. At $1, there'd be a certain group of customers; at $3, an even wider number of customers-certainly more than at 15?." Why? Summed up a psychoanalyst...
Princeton moves onto the second leg of its rehabilitation program this afternoon when it plays host to defenseless Penn. The Quakers blew my perfect prediction slate when they allowed Bucknell two touchdowns and a 28-27 win in the game's final four minutes last Saturday. The Tigers, in retaliation, should drub Penn...