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Performing before an audience of 700 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris last week, Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz completed the last segment of a taped, hour-long all-Heifetz TV show that will be aired in the U.S. in April. During a passage that the accompanying French National Orchestra played too loudly, Heifetz, 69, cautioned, "Softer, please, they want to hear me." An impressive standing ovation proved that he was absolutely right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 5, 1970 | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Fall campaign which culminated in tre occupation of Dean May's office on November 19, SDS charged that the painters' helpers program was an example of subtle racism in the University. They said that many of the painters' helpers were in fact experienced painters and demanded that all painters' helpers be promoted to painters immediately...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...being in the right place at the right time, Arnett combines hustle with a discerning eye for detail and an acute ear for devastating quotes, including those that symbolize the tragedy of the war. He was there, for example, when an Army major looked over the ruins of Ben Tre after the Tet offensive and said, "The city had to be destroyed in order to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Time to Decompress | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...surely cannot be clearer than it is now that this war which brings us the civilian massacres at Ben Tre and My Lai, the destruction of the historic city of Hue, and the death of countless fighting men, including 42,000 Americans, is a horrendous error. This war is not for the benefit of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, or the United States: it is detrimental...

Author: By Keith H. Emmons, | Title: The Mail CHARLES STREET PRISON | 6/9/1970 | See Source »

While Osborne attempts to be scrupulously fair on the subject of homosexuality, he also exhibits a certain squeamish distaste for the subject. The evening's coup de théâtre is the drag ball that opens Act II. Lavishly costumed for a kind of inverts' Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Viennese Drag | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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