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...anyone at Harvard actively conceals administrative decisions but there is obviously a lack of active explanation of these decisions to the university community. Some people seem to have the idea that their jobs are easier when they do not have to discuss them publicly." He adds, though, that good PR men won't solve everything...
...hesitates to call it a culture ) and is quite willing to use his razz-ma-tazz prose to further his subjects' own ends. He's caught on to the fact that the most revealing documentation of modern day America is carried on through the voice of the press release. (PR, you may remember, was even invented by an American, Cambridge's own Edward Bernays.) So when Wolfe takes off on his great tirades of trade names and trivia, the neon flashing in his eyes, the fury of apocalypse heavy on his breath, he becomes our twentieth-century Walt Whitman singing...
...world's musical citadels, the Barenboim-Du Pré charm is rivaled today only by such soirée idols as Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta. They do not enjoy separation, and arrange their schedules to be with each other as much as possible. Their home is London, and for three months a year they stay there, working out of a cluttered, low-ceilinged basement flat near Baker Street that was once Jacqueline's student digs. Still, as partners or single acts, Du Pré and Barenboim are willing to travel anywhere in the world to make music...
Like Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the Barenboim and Du Pré team proves that the sight and sound of two brilliant artists conquering continents hand in hand has a magical allure all its own. But there is far more to these players than such allure. Today Jacqueline's cello playing is a marvel of tonal beauty and instinctive emotion, backed by a prodigious technical grasp. As aurorally mellow as the late Emanuel Feuermann, as powerful of phrase as one of her former mentors Pablo Casals, Jacqueline is one of the most eloquent and soulful cellists alive...
...their public careers were not enough, Du Pré and Barenboim are the magnetic center for a clubby group of musical jet-setters known affectionately and with some envy as the "musical mafia." It consists of Ashkenazy, Violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman, plus Mehta, who is reliably reported to play a mean double bass. The group meets four or five times a year to play chamber music. "We are more than friends," says Mehta. "If there could be something like a family outside a family, that's what we have...