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...gestures are so economical that the audience often fails to see them; when the orchestra is surging forward on its own momentum, Dixon may suspend conducting entirely for bars on end. Such restrained emotion is reflected in Dixon's musicmaking. It is neither hot-bloodedly Tuscan, in the manner of Toscanini, nor chiseled and cold, as many Europeans believe all music made by Americans must be. Instead, it is full-bodied and vigorous while it remains consistently controlled. In Frankfurt, Dixon's style has earned him a reputation for playing Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in the Germanic fashion...
Nevertheless, Professor Hughes has decided to suspend the intellectual dilemmas and run. His compound role--Hughes the intellectual, Hughes the politician, Hughes the man of issues, Hughes the image, Hughes the reformer, and Hughes the peace advocate--is, to be sure, fraught with ambiguities. The voters may not mind the ambiguities, but some Harvard people do, and one often hears them ask, "Why is he doing...
...clamorous dismay of a musical world that has hailed her as La Stupenda, Coloratura Joan Sutherland, 35, announced that she would have to suspend her operatic career for up to six months because of a two-year-old spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision...
...found guilty, they will be forced to suspend their research, but Murphy has indicated that any illegal act was committed inadvertently, and the men will not be prosecuted. Had a psychiatrist been connceted with the research, there would have been a person to take clear-cut legal responsibility for errors...
Plane Fear. Some airports have gone so far as to suspend jet traffic completely during certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...