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Regarding his position against the SAT Donahue recalled that in elementary school he was a bluebird--a slow reader--not an eagle and that he would never have scored well on standardized tests...
Even the casual reader will note that the comments you falsely attribute to me are not in quotes, and in fact I did not say this. To be sure, the Harvard Administration and scores of professors are "friends" of ROTC and "are interested in promoting the use of military force." But the SYL does not protest ideologues for their views, but war criminals for their deeds. "Friends of ROTC," a collection of sick Cantabrigian sociopaths is not the question. In 1939, Hitler had the Wehrmacht, but who-ever heard of the Friends of the Wehrmacht--unless it was the German...
...story is fragmented, the insights are a bit cliched, and the real plot--the relationship between Susan and Leonid--remains hidden. Yet the story does show potential. Sheila Levin would fare better in her next novel if she ceased indulging her characters in self-righteousness and let the reader discover the novel's simple truths for himself...
Despite the many frustrations of the text, the flow of sympathetic and clearly intelligent ideas carry the reader swiftly along. Mozart is set convincingly in his period with an adequate array of related characters. The astounding achievement of his music is movingly set against the pecuniary and social tragedies of his brief life. The story is further spiced with a succession of sometimes amusing, and always appropriate, anecdotes. (We are told, for example, about the occasion in a Swedish maternity clinic when his Piano Concerto K 467 was successfully used to ease childbirth...
...with a still-unresolved composite of "an inconceivably great mind." All the cliched preconceptions--the angelic genius, the pauper-composer who hardly needed to think about the music he produced, the partier--are soon quashed. Hildesheimer, steeped for three decades in Mozart's music and history, shares with his reader the honest belief that his subject will remain "forever puzzling and unapproachable...