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Works of Mozart, Messiaen, Brahms, and Schubert; Nancy Young, flute, Michael Friedmann, piano; Eliot Library...
...Giscard's 15-member Cabinet are held by fellow E.N.A. alumni: Premier Jacques Chirac ('59), Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski ('48) and Finance Minister JeanPierre Fourcade ('54). In addition, Giscard's three key aides are also graduates, as is Chirac's chief adviser, Jacques Friedmann ('59). The appearance of so many men from E.N.A. at the levers of real political power has brought unaccustomed-and mostly unwanted-attention to the small but supremely influential school. Wryly commenting on France's apparent change from a republic to a tight little technocracy, the satirical weekly...
...city at any given time-great, after all, is a word that implies uniqueness. It is doubtful, too, that the world itself can contain more than half a dozen great cities at once. Indeed, a great city cannot exist in an unimportant country, which is why Urban Planner John Friedmann of U.C.L.A. prefers to call great cities "imperial cities." London and Paris are still great cities, but they lost some of their luster when world politics shifted to Washington, Moscow and Peking-all of which lack at least one ingredient of greatness. Washington may be the political center...
Another examples of eclectic music was Michael Friedmann's Leuchten, a "work in progress" for four players. I hope the work progresses considerably because in its present pseudo-Webernian condition it seems unimaginative in the extreme and generally unredeemable. Janice Hamer's String Trio, while stronger, suffers from repetitive alternation between cantilena and pizzicato writing...
Salons & Saloons. Capa was born Andrè Friedmann in Hungary. At 18 he went to Germany to study sociology, started to earn his way as a part-time photographer. When Hitler came to power, Capa skied across the border into Austria, then went to Paris, where he hit upon a unique scheme to sell his pictures. He invented a famed photographer-himself. He posed as darkroom assistant for "a rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann...