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It has taken more than a century for Bacchus Jr. to assemble his credentials: today they are a cause for hallelujahs, not harrumphs. In wine tastings from Perth to Paris, the bottles from California have been winning golds, silvers and bronzes in informal vinous Olympics against the products of some...
Fox, 39, an English-educated Californian, writes in a fashion reminiscent of Van Tilburg Clark. His passages about the Mountain West and its mores, unforgiving nature, the meanness of small-town men, the sagacity of an oldtime sheriff, the vulnerability of neglected women, are powerful and occasionally lyrical. Describing the...
Busoni: The Six Sonatinas for Piano (Paul Jacobs, Nonesuch). Frederick Rzewski: Song and Dance. John Harbison: The Flower-Fed Buffaloes (Speculum Musicae, John Harbison conductor, Nonesuch). These two discs exemplify the fare that tiny, enterprising Nonesuch has been putting out for 15 years, a mixture of the unhackneyed traditional and...
Qum is a city of 250,000 people that is drenched in dust, swept by howling, bitter-cold winds in winter and scorched by an angry sun in summer. A 19th century British traveler, James Morier, described Iran's religious center as a place in which, "excepting on the subject...
Certainly, I no longer will look towards Harvard as an example of what a great university is. Perhaps Harvard, however, should look towards Bridgewater State College, where the Student Government Association has been recognized by the administration, and given an active voice in the running of the college. I shall...