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...cleared away the mess. Since then Mendelssohn's grave has become a musical shrine. Today Berliners, East and West alike, are enjoying a month-long festival of the composer's music to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Mendelssohn's death in 1847 at age 38. Herbert von Karajan led the Berlin Philharmonic down the high-flavored paths of the Scotch Symphony. The Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin gave the first major performance in 149 years of Mendelssohn's early (but mature) String Symphony No. 10. Even his mammoth oratorios were heard in churches on both sides...
...expressed personal objections to the whole scheme is Freshman Dean F. Skiddy Von Stade, and he has conscientiously kept his remarks on the unofficial level. Von Stade has apparently raised the issue of the moral implications of University complicity in condoms and foam and the resulting responsibility for widespread birth-control. Unfortunately, he has also kept his remarks on a level that is either spectacularly naive or downright insulting to the sexual predispositions of freshmen and freshwomen everywhere. "It might reinforce the idea that it isn't a bad thing." Von Stade told one reporter apparently referring first...
...recent entry on the scene won't change any episodes in the diaries of well-adjusted freshmen. And given the reality of centuries of Harvard adventurism--with and without contraception--the hesitations Von Stade implies verge on the splendidly incomprehensible. After all, with the Yard officially bi-sexual this fall it's really a little too late for anyone to turn back...
Shanghal Express. Josef von Sternberg's 1932 masterpiece with Marlene Dietrich as a femme fatale caught up in the Chinese Civil War (circa 1912). CH.4...
...Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '36, dean of Freshmen, said yesterday that selling contraceptives in the Union "seems to condone human relations which I've always thought of as a one-to-one thing." He added, "It might reinforce the idea that isn't a bad thing...