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...clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera Company a year ago, Clamma, a Juilliard graduate, taught music and the poetry of Goethe and Schiller to prisoners on New York's Riker's Island. She hopes to play such operatic rolls as Margherita in Mefistofele and straight dramatic parts like Nora in A Doll's House...
Defensively the Tigers, anchored by All-Ivy performer Ted Schiller, are solid and experienced--they stand fourth in the country in pass defense--but a defense generally can't score points, just prevent them...
...While Schiller's original text favors the romantic Scottish queen and casts Elizabeth as the villain, Stephen Spender's verse translation depicts both monarchs as victims of historical circumstance. If Elizabeth's decree obliges Mary to mount the scaffold, the Stuart queen has at least the consolation of dying surrounded by admirers and absolved from sin. Elizabeth, on the other hand, in her zeal to save appearances is finally condemned by them, retaining her crown only at the cost of losing the friendship and popular support that gave it meaning...
...filed suit against the biographers of her late father, Comedian Lenny Bruce. Claiming copyright infringement, unfair trade practice and appropriation of Bruce's name and likeness, Kitty wants $11 million from the makers of the movie Lenny and another $4 million from Authors Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller and the publishers of Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! Why file suit now? "So I'll be able to pay my bills for the rest of my life...
...book. Then, as if discovering Joyce afresh, he fairly glowed with joy: "Marvelous phrase. Isn't that the essence of alienation?" Still wandering, he went on to observe that a character in the Dubliners kept a rotting apple in his desk, which reminded him that the only way Schiller could compose poetry was with an apple giving off fumes in his desk drawer. That in turn reminded the professor of the dangers of becoming too academic. "If anyone connects this rotting apple with the Fall, he will immediately lose 20 points," he said...