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...right to property is set up within society," Kelman asserted. Democratic socialists believe that men are products of their environment, he said, and owe a large portion of the success they achieve to others. "Thomas Alva Edison could not have gotten along without the contributions of all sorts of others who were less talented," he said...
Rossini, La Cenerentola (Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Renato Capecchi, Paolo Montarsolo, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera Chorus, Claudio Abbado conducting; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $20.94). Despite the greater popularity of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, this is actually the composer's comic masterpiece, a work in which the stuff of childish fantasy is transformed breathtakingly into the best kind of adult fun and games. In the title role, Spain's Teresa Berganza sings with a bravura coloratura style that (among mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version...
This imagination, coupled with a willingness to try just about anything, is Restic's forte. One of his former bosses, Alva Kelly at Brown, even went so far as to tell Harvard officials that Restic "has the best football mind in North America...
...device praised by an enthusiastic Thomas Alva Edison as "the first successful helicopter" set a record at McCook's Field in Dayton by remaining aloft for two minutes, 45 seconds...
Though he now has his doubts about the meaning of it all, Cavett seems to have been destined to become the host with the mots. In Gibbon, Neb., and later in Lincoln, he was reared on words. His father Alva, who was then a high school English-lit teacher, read Shakespeare to his son when he was a toddler. By the time he was four, Dick was reciting A.A. Milne. He was also developing a remarkably resonant and deep voice, and that, coupled with the fact that he was exceedingly short (he is now a touch under...