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...this is run away weather!" Rick says, as he ambles through the Yard in the warm spring sun. "This is my 25th year here," he says. "This year I have to get extra vacation time. I'm thinking of getting my boy in the car and pointing it west." He marvels over the mountains and deserts and animals his son has never seen--Rick wants to show him everything. "I'm sort of looking forward to having him sprawling in the front seat and talking to him," he says wistfully...
...always liked Santayana's exit from Harvard," Rick says. "He stood looking out the window then turned toward his lecture audience and said, 'Gentlemen, I have an appointment with April,' and he left...
...Rick stops at the Office of the Arts to check on an assignment for the night. He was told to photograph Sarah Caldwell, conductor of the Boston Opera Company, but the Arts Office has been consistently giving him the wrong information--he gets to an assignment and there's no one there, so he's getting progressively less eager to work for them...
Myra Maymen assures him that he will get the correct time and the permission to shoot Sara Caldwell. Then, like everyone else Rick bumps into at Harvard these days, Maymen tells him how thin he's gotten. His illness caused him to drop to half his size in the last three months...
Sarah Caldwell does not like photographers around when she's conducting, so Rick Stafford, peeking at her from the balcony above, knows he has a tough assignment on his hands. Caldwell is seated on a throne-like chair on the ground floor of the Busch-Reisinger Museum with her orchestra and chorus amassed before her. She bellows out instructions to the soloists on the balcony and all heads turn upward. Rick brings his camera to his eye and is very tempted to shoot while he can see their faces, but he can't risk being heard and ordered out before...