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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regularly on the podium that he became known throughout Italy as "The Fainting Maestro." When he consulted doctors, they could only point out what he already knew: that he lost his genial manner in the presence of music and that his nervous tension built up to a fainting spell, usually as the orchestra approached the slow movement of the symphony or concerto he was conducting...
...Johnson being kind for once to Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through his hat, like an inspired lunatic...
Ordinarily I am loath to call your attention to errors in quotes. If you spell our names and list our college classes correctly, most of us are content to leave the rest more-or-less up to you. But since the publication of your fascinating article on Freshman Advising our office has been besieged by students pleading thirst and overwork, like so many crosses between Oliver Twist and the Ancient Mariner...
Paris, the world's most powerful art magnet, is still pulling young painters and sculptors from all over the world. What do they find when they get there? To spell out the economic facts of life, Paris' art monthly L'Oeil poked into studios and galleries, combed the artists' hangouts for facts and figures. Its findings, published this month, considerably deflate the traditional happy-go-lucky view of la vie en rose...
...single assist from sentimentality. But what remains finally is a careful delineation of a world that could not be imagined from passing any number of the blind on the street. It is possible that most Dr. Augusts will be as surprised by The Fourth World as those who cannot spell Braille. For Daphne Athas sees with the sharp eye of the novelist...