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...Instead of saying 'Good Evening,' " says Jacqueline Du Pré, recalling the night four years ago when she first met Daniel Barenboim at a London party, "we sat down and played Brahms." He was a coiled, compact and energetic Israeli of 24, and one of the best-known young pianists in the world. She was 21, and already Britain's leading cellist, a tall, smiling, shy English lass with a stunning kind of farm-fresh beauty. Instant karma. Two weeks later, Barenboim decided he wanted to marry Jacqueline. Six months later he did. Thus began...
...world's musical citadels, the Barenboim-Du Pré charm is rivaled today only by such soirée idols as Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta. They do not enjoy separation, and arrange their schedules to be with each other as much as possible. Their home is London, and for three months a year they stay there, working out of a cluttered, low-ceilinged basement flat near Baker Street that was once Jacqueline's student digs. Still, as partners or single acts, Du Pré and Barenboim are willing to travel anywhere in the world to make music...
...RECHERCHE du Elvis perdu: Forgive me, for I am forced to lapse into first person subjective. Not to tell of myself, but because of an incapability of telling of anyone else. Elvis Presley, I had thought, had begun too long ago, over 15 years, close to 20 years ago, for many of us to have really felt his presence. But others tell me no, even as seven or eight year olds we knew who Elvis was, though perhaps not why television refused to film him from waistward down. No? why his sideburns should upset our parents...
...twicethe first time from the shame of its capitulation to the Nazis in World War II, the second from its own quarreling factions. With the Fifth Republic, he gave France its first strong governmental framework since the days of Louis Napoleon. He was indeed "I'homme du destin," as Winston Churchill once called him, and even his name, suggestive of both Charlemagne and ancient Gaul, was perfectly suited to the role he took upon himself. When De Gaulle died last week, just 13 days before his 80th birthday, President Georges Pompidou summed up the crusade: "He gave...
...father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press." He does not align himself with the rabid left-wing advice blazed in La Cause's headlines to "Enlist everybody in the Guerrillas." Yet the paper does report with surprising accuracy riots, demonstrations and strikes. By becoming editor, he hoped to defend freedom of expression by following in his predecessors' footsteps and getting arrested. Indignant that the French government refuses to seize him, Sartre says...