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There were, of course, some problems with the piece. The other soloists were not up to the quality of Sorensen, Hester, and Wilson; their performances ranged from adequate to bad. The strings of the second orchestra, excepting the cello, were out of shape, seemingly under-rehearsed. But the viola da gamba and flute solos, the latter especially, were remarkably well-handled and most of the orchestra played nicely...
...what may have been the heaviest death toll on a U. S. installation in the war, 33 Americans are dead and 76 wounded after a Viet Cong attack Sunday on Fire Base Mary Ann, an artillery base 50 miles south of Da Nang...
...Jews would make. Then Endt tossed the general a Yiddish phrase that almost any Jew would recognize, even one with no formal training in the tongue. "Mazel tov [Good luck]" said Endt as he left. The general, grinning foolishly, was at a loss for words. Finally he replied simply, "Da...
...royal prerogative over approximately 19,000 "wild, white and unmarked swans." That was only fitting, he said, because it "enables Her Majesty to make highly cherished gifts to foreign heads of state"-as she did in 1968 when she presented a pair of swans to then-President Arthur da Costa e Silva of Brazil. That is about the only practical use left for the beautiful bird. Once it was considered a great delicacy at the royal table, but, said the Lord Chancellor, it has been "superseded by the alien turkey...
...sarai solo," Leonardo da Vinci remarked five hundred years ago, "tu sarai tutto tuo" (If you are alone, you are your own man). Biking, like gliding, is one of the most delightful expressions of this fact. There is nothing secondhand or vicarious about the sense of freedom, which means possessing one's own and unique experiences, that a big bike well ridden confers. Antisocial? Indeed, yes. And being so, a means to sanity. The motorcycle is a charm against the Group...