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...concert of "Spontaneous Sound" by Christopher Tree nearly always creates a mood of tranquillity and introspection, whether it be given in a bar or behind bars. From Kenny's Pub in Manhattan to California's San Quentin Prison. Tree has mesmerized audiences with the elemental tones he coaxes from his collection of almost 200 percussion and wind instruments. No two concerts are exactly the same. Tree shuns structure-and with it harmony and most other Western musical conventions-in favor of impulse. "Spontaneity is the essence of the creative act," he says. "Spontaneous music is much more vital...
...accuse. Mosley does not disagree with the political opponent who judged the Prime Minister only qualified to serve as "lord mayor of Birmingham in a bad year." In the witty image of Diplomat-Author Harold Nicolson, Chamberlain may have looked like a curate entering a pub for the first time, but he was sneaky enough, says Mosley, to trick Anthony Eden into resigning as Foreign Minister and, as late as the summer of 1939, to make fumbling secret overtures to the Germans without informing the French or even his own Foreign Office. Chamberlain's supreme stupidity was to treat...
...only thing that all Irishmen agree about is that you're wrong. In fact, even that statement would probably fetch you a fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...
...process to revamp the Judicial Board began last fall when a student was charged with stealing a keg of beer from the Business School pub...
...enjoyed your commentary on the World Marble Championship [April 11]. The "upstart colonials" are, in fact, a group of stockbrokers who found themselves in the same pub during the recent New York Stock Exchange Wednesday closings. The transition from elbow bending to shooting marbles was a natural. While it is true that we failed to appear at the championship this year, we had good reason: the application form we requested last October arrived April 2-just two days before the contest. In any event, unless we lose our marbles, we will be there next year...