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TAKING ONESELF TOO seriously is always a gamble. Failures that lesser writers could get away with leave gaping holes in Hawkes's work. Allert's wife, Ursula, for example, never quite achieves mythic stature and threatens to remain little more than a parody, lounging about in a state of perpetual langour that is supposed to suggest sensuality. Hawkes only makes things worse with his clumsy explanation...
President Bok said yesterday that he told the outgoing masters of Currier House, R. Paul Levine and Ursula W. Goodenough '69, he will meet with no more than three Currier students to discuss who should be the new House master...
This was a week for playing musical House mastership. Wednesday Ursula Goodenough and Paul Levine announced their resignation as comasters of Currier House. Then Abigail M. Thernstrom and Stephan A. Thernstrom refused President Bok's offer of the mastership of Winthrop. Finally, yesterday, Catherine C. Vogt and Evon Z. Vogt, announced they would accept the offer of mastership of Kirkland House...
...Trumpet (Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, Ursula Oppens, piano, play Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Lucia Dlugozewski's Space Is a Diamond, and William Hellerman's Passages 13-The Fire, Nonesuch; $2.98). All too often avant-garde music looms as a forbidding wilderness of inhospitable sounds. Not this album of contemporary trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty...
...spend decades laboring in patient obscurity. Alongside them, John Zachary DeLorean, 48, stood out like a Corvette Stingray in a showroom full of G.M.C. trucks. Flamboyant, irreverent and unpredictable, DeLorean wore long hair before that was fashionable-it still is not at G.M.-dated Hollywood wows like Ursula Andress, and was twice divorced. Still, he rose steadily to head all G.M. car and truck production, and was rumored to be G.M.'s next president. But last week DeLorean abruptly resigned his $300,000-a-year post to become unsalaried president of the National Alliance of Businessmen, a group active...