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...rushing pell-mell to U.S. campuses, African students often find a bitter reality of poverty, loneliness and academic failure. One cure for this mess, which wins the U.S. no friends in Africa, is a common-sense group called the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. Developed three years ago by David D. Henry, former admissions dean of Harvard, A.S.P.A.U. now links 24 African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they...
...Parsifal, he called Amfortas "that melancholy knight of the Grail, who whines like a shopgirl and whimpers like a baby." Yet traces of the Wagnerian influence remained. "But that's the whole of Parsifal,'' muttered Richard Strauss after hearing a particular passage from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande...
...Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began to understand that Debussy was attempting something new in opera; by reducing the vocal parts to declamation-close to spoken language...
Sophomore guard George Humann, who played brilliantly all night for the Eagles, scored on a fast break after a jump shot by Leo Scully had failed. Then B.C. repeatedly moved over, under, around, and through the pell-mell Crimson defense, scoring six times in the next three minutes, all on shots from less than five feet...
Shaky Foundations. The decline in profit margins is especially painful because West Germany is woefully short of money for capital investment. In the booming postwar years, German companies financed most of their pell-mell expansion out of retained earnings. This year, with earnings leaner, German industry will not have so much to plow back into capital investment...