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...touring in Israel and Switzerland as a soloist with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. While in Switzerland he won first prize for violin soloists in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras, earning the opportunity to remain and study with Max Rostal, who has been called "the greatest violin teacher in Central Europe." Lefkowitz was 16 at the time, and living in Switzerland made him miserable. He was lonely and he's never played as poorly as he did under Rostal. "I was overwhelmed by his reputation, by his caliber. I wasn't sure if I could face...
Forbidden Theme. Solzhenitsyn's memoirs begin in 1961, when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues...
Died. Ann Scott, 45, key legislative strategist of the National Organization for Women; of cancer; in Baltimore. A poet and college English teacher, Scott fought discrimination against women in academe. Elected a vice president of NOW in 1971, she was credited with gaining the support of Common Cause and the AFL-CIO for the Equal Rights Amendment, which she campaigned for virtually until the day of her death...
Engaged. Princess Maria Christina, 27, fourth and youngest daughter of The Netherlands' Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard and ninth in line to the Dutch throne; and Jorge Guillermo, 28, a Cuban refugee and a teacher of preschool youngsters in Harlem. Classical music buffs who met in 1973, the couple, after a June wedding in The Netherlands, will live in New York City, where Christina teaches French and music at a Montessori school...
...puck with their heavy leg pads. The maneuver has two drawbacks: the 6-oz. vulcanized rubber disk can slip between his legs as the goalie flops; and once he is on the ice, he is helpless against rebound shots. Parent's approach, copied from his idol and teacher, Stand-Up Master Jacques Plante, requires more finesse but provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers start to charge his net at speeds revving up to 30 m.p.h., Parent begins a familiar ritual: he knocks his stick on his skates, moves a few feet up ice to the edge...