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...absent-minded to remember. When he is in the mood, he may sit for 14 hours a day at the piano, but he is also likely to go for months without practicing. He dislikes recording, and as a result the scattered Richter disks available in the U.S. do him scant justice (with the notable exception of some fine Schumann playing he has done for the Decca and Monitor labels). Nevertheless, for most Westerners, recordings will probably remain the only clue to Richter's art. Although Conductor Ormandy would like to bring him to the U.S., there is no sign...
British Vogue Editor Audrey Withers complained that the uniforms give British girls scant chance to "blossom into pretty, well-dressed young women." Recently one girls' school decided that a modest blossoming might not bring on moral blight: Headmistress Eileen Evans of Bedfordshire's Luton High School announced that her sixth-formers (mostly 17-year-olds) could chuck their uniforms, put on regular dresses, nylons and makeup -but no jewelry. Encouraged by this move, one clothier last week invited headmistresses to a showing of remodeled uniforms, including gym slips with "a hint of fashion line...
...lives with his wife in a wood-and-glass, stilt-supported house in Berkeley, composes in a studio tucked below next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed...
...varsity third crew bested the Amherst varsity by half a length and the second string lightweights defeated the Lord Jeff J.V. crew by a scant 35 seconds...
...authors, who apparently assume that children are going to stay put in the towns where they are first taught, make another assumption much favored by the educationists-that "learning for learning's sake" is of scant value, and that only "life purposes," i.e., "needs of hunger, physical comfort, the desire for expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive...