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...roof of Memorial Church. I am also a Christian and a Harvard student. Leaving aside the question of whether members of other religious faiths have been or should be allowed to perform ceremonies in Memorial Church, what right has he to say that we are breaking with Christianity? My version of Christianity and his are very different. I do not presume to judge his creed as wrong; perhaps he could exhibit the same degree of respect for mine...
Conductor and soloist were once again equal partners in Webern's version of "Ihr Bild." The orchestra played movingly and, for the great climax, Baer puffed out his cheeks, stuck out his neck and sounded totally despondent as he attacked the last two lines: translated from the German, "And ah, I cannot believe/That I have lost...
When Dohnanyi came onstage after intermission, it was clear that he would conduct Mahler's first symphony without the score. That anyone could know such an immense work by heart was hard to imagine until his masterful interpretation began. A reduced version of the orchestra, mostly strings, had performed the Schubert, but now that all the musicians filled the stage Doh- nanyi was no less in control...
...errors do stand out. Bad dialogue abounds, particularly from the whiny mouth of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). Also, the film grows sluggish at times; I didn't remember it taking this long for Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids to leave Tatooine. The special effects (those from the original version) range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The final scene in which the X-wing fighters speed through the trenches of the Death Star is so real it looks like it was filmed on location, while the plastic Storm Troopers and the inflexible curmudgeon C-3PO look hardly more believable...
Last year only Mosely and Friedman went to wrestling's version of the Big Dance. Friedman will be facing Matter's younger brother, Bret, who won the conference last year and has been ranked as high as fourth this year...