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Fowler called for education which "glorifies values and ideals," saying that "the gifted pupil is a giving pupil...
...essential misunderstanding between Hinduism and Christianity is in the contrast between teaching and preaching. By explaining the meaning of Hindu doctrine to his pupil and guiding him in controlled living, the Hindu master hopes to lead him to enlightenment. "That is why the Hindu is always perplexed by Christian preaching, which invariably leads to a point where a decision is called for. While the evangelist's teaching may be accepted and his good work appreciated, the final appeal for a decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks...
Sheldon Lubow, a pupil of Claudio Arrau, and a winner of the Pierian Sodality Concerto Contest, was soloist in the next work, Liszt's Piano Concerto in E. With his big tone and sure technique, Lubow was in full control of the brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave...
...golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting of plastic surgery history and techniques onto a chatty life history of Innovator Gillies (known to colleagues as "Giles"). Its 2,300 illustrations comprise an unprecedented...
...with dozens of packing cases filled with yellowed manuscripts. He found no manuscripts in Soler's own handwriting (they had been destroyed in the Napoleonic invasion), but he did discover some 60 Soler sonatas lovingly copied by the monks two centuries ago in tribute to their famous pupil...