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...Britain. Life isn't much like that anymore. Ten years after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, an episode far more characteristic of the present moment, and also true, is seeing a waiter from a fancy restaurant chasing up the street after a pinstripe suit, waving a small object, shouting "Sir! Sir! You left your telephone on the table...
...there is no room for a music director," said Previn. The startling announcements fueled a flurry of who-goes-where speculation that had already begun in Paris, where the new Opera de la Bastille is seeking an artistic director to replace the fired Daniel Barenboim (who has been named Sir Georg Solti's successor with the Chicago Symphony), and in Manhattan, where the New York Philharmonic must replace Zubin Mehta, 53, who has said he will leave...
...North...wasn't made to do what he did," said Horasina McKie, one of five alternates dismissed when the case went to the jury. "He had a choice in it. He had a choice to either say, `No, I don't want to do this' or `Yes sir, I will do this' even as it went along, and he knew it was wrong...
Princess Ida is Sullivan's first work as "Sir Arthur," and it focuses on the early struggle surrounding women's education. An "Amazonian bastion of learning" astounds English male-dominated culture in a hilarious comedy between the sexes which, although not one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous pieces, is often billed as one of their funniest. Shows are through Sunday night and continue next weekend at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Quad...
...Sir Walter Scott? But of course. The bulk of the new OED retains the stamp of the age in which it was born; it remains a triumph of Victorian duty and taxonomic zeal, of a century in which Scott was one of the most popular authors writing in English. Now that the text has become electronic and easier to revise, future OEDs may lose this 19th century bias. Not too soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They...