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Davis, a 1989 graduate, is handicapped, and for most of the 80-odd years of the Andover Chapel's history, the building has been inaccessible to people with physical disabilities...
...matters of life and death. One outing victim had endorsed legislation allowing hospitals to test patients for AIDS without their consent. Another backed a ban on funding to school programs that describe homosexuality as normal. A third supposedly failed to provide adequate public AIDS services. Yet in an odd twist that underscores the uneasy position of gays in society, the demonstrators were attacking enemies by embracing each as one of their...
...timing of the announcement was odd, considering that Mikhail Gorbachev is in the midst of numerous crises, including growing separatism in Lithuania and untamed ethnic violence in Azerbaijan. But cloak-and-dagger experts in the West believe Moscow may have publicized the spy's downfall to warn foreign espionage agencies not to take advantage of the tumultuous times in the Soviet Union. "The Top Hat revelation," said a senior British intelligence officer, "would appear to be a very sophisticated maneuver...
Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with...
While composing some madrigals 20 years ago, William Bolcom stumbled onto an odd coincidence: "I discovered that the funeral hymn Abide with Me and the wedding march from Lohengrin fit in perfect Irving Berlin counterpoint -- a funeral-marriage, Love with Death." This is not a discovery that would impress most composers, but Bolcom is not like most composers. So when the Philadelphia Orchestra performed his powerful new Fifth Symphony last week, the second movement featured, along with intimations of both Tannhauser and Tommy Dorsey, that bizarre wedding of Wagner and Abide with...