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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bach; Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Jean Sibelius gave her their blessings. Then it all unraveled. Metropolitan Opera Baritone John Charles Thomas balked at being led by a woman. Opportunities to play her instrument, the orchestra, were rare. Settling in Denver, she conducted a group of semi-professionals and gave piano lessons. Last year Antonia, a film about her made by a former piano pupil-Folk Singer Judy Collins-started Brico on a second career. At 72, she was suddenly in demand. Last summer she conducted at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and is now booked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Matter of Art, Not Sex | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...ringed by friends from Harvard, most of them ensconsed elsewhere, usually Oxford or Cambridge, and just down for the weekend, or otherwise passing through the great city, often with a Harvard traveling fellowship. Most of these people looked unshakably secure to us, or at any rate free of the semi-vagabond-age that then enclosed us. They had directions in which they were traveling, and positions to which they would return. I wouldn't have called them especially happy, but they were certainly complacent; they were, with an exception or two, contented enough, or perhaps not dissatisfied enough, to alter...

Author: By David Landau, | Title: After Harvard: Out in the Unreal World | 11/4/1975 | See Source »

...typical of our time and culture to see people groping for spirituality in such an "American" way. Pay your money as well as a minimal amount of time and thinking and-presto! Relaxation and maybe even a little semi-enlightenment. This McDonald's of spirituality only seems to contribute more to the general plastic atmosphere around us. Must our inner experiences be as shallow as our outer ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 3, 1975 | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Spain's extremists, however, are likely to beat the Communists to the punch. The Basque terrorists have already vowed to continue their struggle "until we achieve our goals" of a semi-autonomous state in the provinces of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa. The Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Patriotic Front (FRAP), a tiny (200 member) Marxist urban-guerrilla organization, will probably continue its campaign of selected shootings and bombings aimed at disrupting public order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: AFTER FRANCO: HOPE AND FEAR | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...game began innocuously enough with a play centering around midfield for the most part. Penn's Rich McMahon had the best scoring chance in the opening minutes but his semi-break went by the boards as he shot wide and to the left of Crimson goalie Fred Herold...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Kickers Lose, 2-0, To Strong Penn Offense | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

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