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That an amateur orchestra should tackle Mahler would seem to swell ambition into hybris evoke awe but wreak disaster. And for it to invite so great an artist as Maureen Forrester would seem to make conceivable only nemesis or utter triumph. But the gods were sleepy Friday night; the thunderbolt never came. Neither catastrophe nor undreamed success came to the HRO: feeling flickered in the music now and again, sometimes brilliantly, but never consistently...
...Republican chances in Manhattan's mayoralty election next November, F.D.R.'s only G.O.P. son, Manhattan Brokerage House Executive John Roosevelt neglected to cull the army of possible candidates (of which he is one), instead nominated the Republicans' "best campaigner": Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner, "because of his utter inefficiency, his barren planning, his total lack of leadership, and the long and sorrowful list of scandals that he has permitted to flower during the seven years he has hibernated at City Hall...
...Russian translator on the program, Harvard's Nicholas DeWitt, arranged for him to come along, and hired a Cadillac ("a sickly marlin blue") to speed off to Providence. Sedov by then was about to emplane for New York. Cray persuaded him to ride instead in the Cadillac "in utter peace and quiet." Sedov produced a couple of nuggets for Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard's cover story. In turn, the Soviet scientist and his companions seemed fascinated by the ride, particularly with the automated Thruway toll booths which respond to dropped quarters with flashing "Thank You" signs...
...lend the genius a helping hand-and offers, for the sake of simplicity, to go fifty-fifty for life-it looks an act of unparalleled generosity. It never occurs to the genius that he is entitled to more than 50% of himself. Don't shout at him or utter threats or tell him who's boss; you want your genius happy. The genius has the imagination to make himself your slave. His fears are far greater than anything you can instill into...
Just as the rationalizations are running out, the linguophiles come up with leadership and tradition. Harvard, you see, is a leader, and if it stopped requiring language skills of every student, all the schools of the country would decide that such studies were an utter waste of time and abolish them. Tradition reminds us that civilized men speak foreign languages--they have also, at varied times, worshipped kings, written bad poetry, and listened to folk songs...