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...Oboe Concerto. Vogel has an enormous, full sound. Although you can never cover oboes up entirely. I used to think of them as being the delicate members of the wind section. I had no idea that Sanders could ring from the sound of a single oboist. His tone was pleasant, and his technique nearly flawless. I wasn't bowled over, but his phrasing and musicianship were equally good. [I was surprised that he hadn't memorized his part.] Music of this period is very transparent. For this reason the orchestra's slightly ragged playing was noticeable, and it was just...
...interviewing at poolside, on the set, and on auto trips to Mexico City, Barry at the wheel. "Her whole household has a wonderful atmosphere," said Farrell. "People coming and going-Bardot and Louis Malle-and everyone singing Jeanne's praise. But she is quite modest. In her household, pleasant vibrations...
Chains of the Past. Somehow the reader reads on, for at least Author Wouk moves this minor work along in pleasant, soft-shoe style, very welcome .after the heaviness of Youngblood Hawke. And beneath the sagging routines can sometimes be seen a man with a message who got lost. Wouk is no longer at heart a comic writer. He is a moralizer. The burden of his moral is that a man is what he has been: he can do little, perhaps nothing, to break the chains of the past...
...Your brilliant story on Libermanism [Cover, Feb. 12] ought to disabuse many Americans of the pleasant dream that use of a profit system for state enterprises puts the Soviet Union on the road toward a free society. The Russians adopted this technique to beat us at our own game. It will not make them free-enterprisers or lead to lasting greater freedom for the individual. The seeming decentralization of decision making will not last-as you correctly quoted me and some unnamed State Department experts as saying...
...people, and they're here to stay," says Harvard College Dean John Monro. Harvard began admitting Radcliffe girls to its classes during World War II, eventually abolished separate courses. Since coeducation came gradually, it did not require any major policy changes. Coeducation, says Monro, "proved to be a pleasant, civilized way to do things. My message to Yale and Princeton, when they are ready, is 'Come on in, the water's fine...