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...possessed a town house with painted ceilings and marble fireplaces that he rather hated and a charming wife in Schiaparelli originals whom he loved, and he showed off both. Parties the Clarks gave and attended were exercises in name-dropping: Noël Coward, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rubinstein, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill...
...Amnon Rubinstein, dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School and a founding member of the political party Shinui (change), told an audience of about 100 people at the Science Center. "The centralized political machinery in Israel has been responsible for a great deal of alienation...
...Rubinstein said that Israeli voters must cast their ballots for lists of candidates whom they have no part in selecting, and who, for the most part, do not share the voters' vocations. He added that these candidates, when elected, do not represent specific localities in the Israeli parliament...
...highly politicized society like Israel, such a large floating vote is incredible," Rubinstein said...
...virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...