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...balky harpsichord nearly destroyed the Bach Fifth Brandenburg at the start of the evening. A sticking action, hampered by the intense heat of a packed JCR, combined with a number of broken plectra to render the instrument nearly useless. Hugh Wolff, the harpsichordist, somehow managed to play through the 70-bar cadenza at the end of the first movement, in the process inadvertently producing a number of truly bizarre harmonies. Wolff appeared remarkably calm and demonstrated a fine technique when not obscured by the instrument's problems. Given that the Bach was the first of two programs that same evening...
There is as yet no American analogue to Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh. No coherent explanation for the current confusion has yet come forward. Traditional socialist analysis in the United States, borrowed from other areas of the world, is generally useless in explaining the current unrest. In its continued absence, some people in this country will turn to gurus and yogis, many more will just mill about in a bewildered ideological confusion...
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...major ideological crisis had developed from economic stress and the breakdown of traditional values among hard-hit social groups. Ideological anarchy threatened when tried-and-true maxims finally proved useless for dealing with everyday reality. Only a central figure in authority could restore some sort of order...
...major ideological crisis had developed from economic stress and the breakdown of traditional values among hard-hit social groups. Ideological anarchy threatened when tried-and-true maxims finally proved useless for dealing with everyday reality. Only a central figure in authority could restore some sort of order...