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While masters anticipate future dialogues--including talk about a multicultural student center, concerns about the state's alcohol policy and rumblings about a thirteenth House--last week's Council of Masters meeting highlighted a growing concern shared by many: the hope to make the House more of an academic community...
However, there were plenty of empyrean moments. At first the great Magyar thirteenth variation seemed in danger of being too subdued, but then a gust of forceful, mordent arpeggios stirred one back to sense. Pratt's deliberation over the chromaticism of variation 20 was delicious, and his energized attacca of the fugue was stupendous. This is not your grandfather's Brahms--Wilhelm Backhaus was. Wilhelm Backhaus did not have dread-locks...
...Life, Hall establishes connections to these older books--the volume's first poem, "The Night of the Day," continues the story of his 1988 book The One Day, while the second, "The Thirteenth Inning," takes up the Schwitters premise. But the bulk of the book, and the bulk of what Hall read Tuesday, is the title poem, a long agglomeration of short, free-form, highly autobiographical segments. This is "confessional poetry" carried to an extreme--Hall writes exactly what has happened to him, from age 4 to last year, including precise names, dates and locations. The language is not much...
However, despite its outstanding regular-season record, Harvard was only the thirteenth-seeded team in the Mid-East bracket of the NCAA Tournament. The seeding pitted the Crimson against perennial powerhouse Vanderbilt, a team that had reached the Sweet Sixteen last season...
...Crimson entered the Texas tournament ranked thirteenth in the country after impressive victories over Duke and South Alabama in the National Indoor Championships...