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Bach's music is exceedingly complex, sometimes combining four or five melodies at once, and Andrei A. Molotin '88, a self-proclaimed Bach fanatic, said that this complexity may explain why Bach was not so popular in his own time. Molotin labelled Bach's music emotionless and pure, and said it should not be played in the more flowing romantic style, which would cause some of the structure to be lost...

Author: By Maia E. Harris and Jennifer L. Mnookin, S | Title: Bach-analia | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

...efforts of new baseball commisioner Peter Ueberroth to finally resolve the designated hitter issue are admirable. As it is every other year the World Series showcases the pure game and pitchers hit. Name the last hurler to hit a home run in the October Classic...

Author: By Nick Wurf and David L. Yermack, S | Title: The 1985 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and prepped at Andover and Exeter. The rest of the country acts as if it has somehow risen to a higher spiritual ground by moving out to the country. I doubt that the clean air makes them morally pure...

Author: By Nicholes S. Wurf, | Title: Every Town Is Our Town | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight effortlessly. Troyanos, who was born in the neighborhood where the musical is set (and where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: West Side Story, Gentrified | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...Regan says. He is constantly being hustled. His role is to hear the pure tones, to sort out the voices that are most often right and get them to the President. Partly this is a matter of mastering new information. Regan found that the Ortega they talked about at the White House was Nicaragua's leftist leader and not Katherine Ortega, Treasurer of the U.S., who signs the money. On TV he was taken aback when asked what the Administration planned to do about AIDS, not the balance of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Letting Regan Be Regan | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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