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...music concentrator, Chen says she does regret the lack of emphasis on performance in the her department--an age-old gripe among Harvard musicians. Little has changed since the days of Leonard Bernstein '40, when, he has said, one could walk through Paine Hall and not hear a note of music...
...Haile Selassie, a friend of his late father's, invited him to attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany him on an expedition among the touchy Danakil...
...These age-old images of Iowa, however, die hard. Even the candidates, who routinely feign enthusiasm while touring hogpens, foster the hayseed stereotypes. Although their state dominates the news in the closing weeks before the caucuses, Iowans can rightly claim to be misunderstood. Four myths in particular color popular assumptions about the state and its voters...
Entering Saturday's Harvard-Northeastern gridiron showdown, Crimson football Coach Joe Restic knew he had to solve an age-old mystery: how to break the Wishbone...
...situation exists in Chicago. A Black man clearly is at the head of the Democratic Party in Chicago. The question is whether the old machine style of powersharing between different ethnic voting blocks will work to keep the city at political peace or whether age-old racial divisions will prove too strong. Will racial prejudice in ethnic neighborhoods--spurred on by the baiting rhetoric of people like Vrdolyak who has begun to reach for the Republicans in neighborhoods he used to wardheel as a Democrat--make a white-Black sharing of power impossible as long as the Blacks are dominant...