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...sailing team showed its depth by qualifiying five boats for the semi-finals of the New England Single-Handed Championships. No other school qualified more than three sailors for the event. Andy Kittler, John Clement, and Jim Harper breezed to firsts in the qualifying heats...
There are simply not enough skilled technicians, actors, and directors to put on twelve main stage productions next year. Even this year, directors have been hard-pressed to find casts and crews. Few of the actors in Loeb plays this spring came from the University; many were semi-pros from the Boston Conservatory, B.U., and the community at large. Technical personnel have been especially scarce, for the main stage demands a familiarity with staging and equipment which cannot be acquired in the Adams House Dining Room...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (RCA Victor). The fourth album in the Boston Symphony's Prokofiev series is devoted to his next to last symphony, which commemorated the end of World War II. Written when Prokofiev was a semi-invalid, the sixth is largely elegiac, for "wounds that can't be healed." Erich Leinsdorf distinguishes subtly between each muted mood, first sorrowing, then celebrating with sober splendor, and kicking off the traces for a jaunty, jazzy finale...
...date, Tynan has got in the last licks: "Capote seems to have invented yet another art form: after the non-fiction novel, the semi-documentary tantrum...
French photographers may not be quite as notorious as Italy's pugnacious paparazzi, but they are no less unscrupulous about invading people's privacy. When they are not wading out into the Mediterranean to sneak pictures of Brigitte Bardot semi-nude on her private beach, they are risking their necks schussing down the ski slopes of the Alps on the track of the Aga Khan. In one typical operation they took a picture of a Parisian professor chatting with one of his students in a Left Bank bistro, then used it to illustrate an article attacking "old pigs...