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Issue like the future of Afro-Am and minority recruitment certainly merit attention, but they should not determine the selection of Harvard's next president. The University needs a leader who will direct the course of undergraduate education and successfully spearhead its record-breaking fundraising drive...
Questioning everything, he also reached out to everything. "I am an omnivore," he says. He fed on the Beatles, for example, and what have been called "the song jewelers": Gershwin, Kern, Berlin. "I liked this music. It satisfied something." He also discovered ragtime and helped spearhead its revival in the 1970s with a nonchalantly elegant recording of rags by Joplin, Lamb, Scott and himself. More important, he discovered mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and began accompanying her around the country in dear old ditties like Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? They married...
...first was to delay the attack by one crucial summer month for the unnecessary foray into Yugoslavia and Greece. The second was to postpone and weaken the drive on Moscow for the sake of capturing the mines and industries of the Ukraine. General Guderian, who was leading the tank spearhead toward Moscow, pleaded for an all-out offensive, but Hitler jeered, "My generals know nothing about the economic aspects...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these 16 digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the latest batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz Masterpieces series...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these 16 digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the latest batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz Masterpieces series...