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Unfortunately to at least one listener this degree was not reflected in last Friday's concert. Harvey Seigal, violin, Michael Zaretsky, viola, and Martha Babcock, cello, played string trios by Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven as if they were sightreading and bored. The problem was not so much technique (although there were a few shaky moments) as ensemble. The group played stiffly, without moving or reaching to one another, and they barely even bowed to the audience...
Giving his first personal interview to a U.S. publication, President Roberto Eduardo Viola, formerly Argentina's army commander in chief, received TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter in his ornate office in the presidential mansion in Buenos Aires. Viola, a short, stocky man, answered questions in a brusque military fashion. Excerpts...
...Administration last week continued its policy of downplaying human rights when dealing with anti-Communist regimes. After meeting with Argentina's President-designate, Lieut. General Roberto Viola, Reagan said he looked forward "to efforts by both governments to further our relations." Military aid to Argentina was cut off in 1978 in response to reports of the disappearance of several thousand opponents of the regime. The domestic situation there has improved, and the Administration has asked Congress to repeal...
...cast, he thoroughly hated, and always interrupted by some stroke of wit or humour ... so far from writing, [he] scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...
...Dale A. Viola '83, Carter's Harvard campaign coordinator and a former Kennedy volunteer, said yesterday all but one of the senator's top Harvard student aides are now working for the president...