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...extremely pleased," Rudenstine said. "He's an extraordinary person, and experienced person, wise, thoughtful and humane...
...would have been wise of the Swiss bankers to hand over to the victims of the Holocaust or their heirs what was rightfully theirs as soon as possible after World War II ended [WORLD, Oct. 28]. The Swiss have been quite self-righteous about their neutrality during the war. Now with the spotlight being turned onto their little piece of the world stage, I am sure they are experiencing a certain degree of angst for fear that the world will learn of their misdeeds. NELLIE RAISBECK Calgary, Canada
...Harvard, clearly the superior team talent-wise, also proved itself to be the tougher squad...
...wise-ass intellectual from the big city, there are a slew of rural phenomena that I'll never truly be able to understand. Country music, chewing tobacco and the gun lobby are first and foremost among them...
After a first half that seemed to stretch on too long, it was perhaps wise to choose Shostakovich's brief, energetic First Synphony to round out the program. The piece's vocabulary was quite different than the Beethoven which had come before, with angular themes, surreptitious-sounding pizzicati, and highly percussive tutti throughout. This idiom seemed to bring out a better side of the orchestra, which took the difficult rhythms in stride, found the wit in some of Shostakovich's jazz-inflected themes, and produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece...