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...outdone by theatre, the Harvard-Radcliffe music community has a spectacular number of performances scheduled. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by James Yannatos, will be on the Loeb mainstage opening night. Rumor had it that the Orchestra would be doing "Peter and the Wolf" narrated by President Bok, but that tidbit seems to have died a quiet death. Their program fittingly enough includes Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." The Bach Society Orchestra has promised its full cooperation in a concert in Lowell House Dining Room, ending its season with Bach's "Second Brandenburg Concerto...
These are pretty forceful words and would seem to indicate a sense of moral outrage over the magnitude of Senator Muskie's alleged deceitfulness. Yet a close look at a couple of these incidents will reveal that only by twisting the facts and by giving credence to rumor can one work oneself into a state of moral outrage against the Muskie New Hampshire campaign...
...Muskie cried in public is proof positive that he would be a poor presidential choice. Doesn't he know that crying not only is unnatural and inefficient, but it also will cause him to rust severely? Someone had better tell him soon in order to stop the ugly rumor that the U.S. turns out human presidential candidates...
...will have time to arrange settlement of his own complicated finances. He is virtually certain to try to sell a new book, this time recounting how he put together the false autobiography, and use part of the proceeds to pay back the money he extracted from McGraw-Hill. One rumor had it that a New York agency called Creative Management Associates, which represents Irving, has bought the rights to the planned book for $380,000-and is supposedly asking $1,000,000 for the film rights. Of Irving's $380,000, $200,000 would purportedly go to McGraw-Hill...
...Griffiths notes, "you couldn't elect a woman just because she's stunning looking. It is some help, in fact, to a woman politician not to look too attractive. One of the things she cannot arouse is jealousy among other women." And it seems likely that a rumor of philandering would damage a woman far more than it would...