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...study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive...
...more practical reason--and practical concerns have a place even among matters of principle--the botched walk-out was a poorly chosen method of expression. It may discourage controversial and influential speakers from coming to Harvard...
...ongoing conversations with graduate students across campus, the necessity of making safe choices, career and otherwise, has been a recurring theme. During a discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of the Socratic method of teaching in American law schools with a 3L, I asked about the Oedipal thrill which must underlie intellectual jousting with a law professor...
...Asian audience gasps at these scenes but never doubts them, because everyone knows Jackie does his own stunts-including some (the coals, the peppers, the industrial alcohol) that suggest Method acting taken to the edge of madness. Lest doubts linger, his films provide instant replays from different angles. Under the closing credits are outtakes showing blown stunts, with comic or near tragic results. Executing a fairly routine jump in Yugoslavia for The Armour of God, he missed a tree branch, hit his head on a rock and almost died. Chan has a memento of the accident: a thimble-size hole...
Clinically, the technique can be used to let patients know whether or not they are predisposed to breast cancer and other hereditary disorders. But Mashal said the method is not 100 percent accurate, as most patients would prefer...