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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks after achieving a roaring success playing a Saint-Saens concerto with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Roy Kogan was back on the Sanders stage Saturday night. This time he played Mozart's 21st piano concerto, K. 467, a work which lacks much of the flamboyance and virtuosity of the high French romantic style, and which is therefore much more difficult to bring off convincingly. As before, Kogan generated a great deal of excitement with his fluid dexterity and remarkable technique, but he also responded well to the subtler musical challenges of Mozart. Throughout the first two movements he demonstrated...

Author: By Forest L. Reinhardt, | Title: A Sampling of Centuries | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...society does not live up to conceptions of justice we learn about here. Students' experiences at Harvard set patterns for the rest of their lives. And at Harvard, one is taught not to look around, but, instead, to get a head start on the isolated path to "success"--a lonely path traveled by the individual, not the group...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Convention Faces Apathy and Distrust | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

This is why the aims of the constitutional convention are good, and why the aims of any such group would be good. The view that Harvard is simply a corporation offering keys to success for those who have the choice to either buy them or spend their money elsewhere is deplorable. Harvard should be viewed as a community setting an example that will teach students how they should--as individuals--integrate themselves into the communities in which they will live in the future. The convention to date faces entrenched cynicism and apathy. There is good reason for students to feel...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Convention Faces Apathy and Distrust | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

While retail prices climb, farmers complain that the money they collect continues to fall behind rising production costs. Some farmers have been threatening to restrict production severely unless the Government increases crop-support payments, but their much publicized "strike" so far shows no sign of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Why Food Prices Are Climbing | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Carolyn Bell, winner of the women's under 115-lbs, division, attributed her success to strength developed playing tennis. Sarah Fisk, who repeated as the women's heavyweight champion, says her strength comes from milking cows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wristwrestling Draws Crowd | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

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