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Next day the car was abandoned in Atlanta, 382 miles away. Gait had managed the long drive unhindered, and disappeared after taking a taxi ride; the driver later recognized him from an FBI sketch. From this point on, Eric Starve Gait ceased to exist...
...Mahler's Second Symphony, in a performance that seemed more authentically Viennese than anything since the days of Bruno Walter. Then, last week, there was Lenny again, preparing to conduct that most Viennese of operas, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. He professed to be terrified. "Every Vienna taxi driver knows Rosenkavalier as well as he does the national anthem," said Bernstein, adding with a little Viennese exaggeration, "It's like walking into the lion...
...sole concession to flamboyance is a reconstruction of Dali's ivy-twined Rainy Taxi, from the 1938 exposition, faithfully copied right down to the snails that crawl on the faces of the sopping, green-lit mannequins inside. Otherwise, dulcet decorum is preserved because, as former Sarah Lawrence Professor Rubin puts it: "While the Dadaists use the term antiart to deny modern art, in retrospect their work takes its place in that tradition, enriching more than denying...
POPSI Project. With some reason, the FCC can answer its critics with the defense that its jurisdiction-the entire publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum-is just unmanageable on a $19 million pittance of a budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications...
There were lots of middle class kids, but not upper middle class, professionals, and a lot of working class kids. It was a tough school, football gang type. No pressure to succeed, in fact just the opposite. I could taxi along very comfortably. I even copied some of the work I had to do from some of the other kids. I adapted to that extent. My first semester I had a 93 average. I was smarter than all but one or two kids in the school so I had no trouble getting...