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...marred many of the soft choral sections as well as the expressive sole arise, Beverly Morgan, Frank. Hoffmeister, and David Evitts handled their sole chores admirably but soprano Mary Sindoni was not up to the task. Her voice sounded almost out of control at times and her phrasing was stiff and lifeless...
...Service. Now, however, the London Sunday Times is challenging that subtle censorship by serializing the diaries without Cabinet permission. The series, which began last month, has focused public attention on press restrictions in a country that pays stiff-upper-lip service to free speech...
...elect united by love (which is equally the root of the paradise myth) continued through Watteau's colleagues and imitators, Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Pater - in The Dance (circa 1730) - Nicolas Lancret and the rest. Nor was it altogether lost with the French Revolution. Delacroix, whose painfully stiff early imitations of Rubens (like Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus...
...estimates by GM, Ford and Chrysler, the cost of meeting these standards has already added between $499 and $600 to the price of a car. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics, however, puts the cost at $415.) Company representatives are pressing Congress for a five-year delay in the stiff Government pollution-control standards now scheduled to take effect in 1977. The automakers contend that, instead of being forced to spend money on devices that reduce emissions, they should be allowed to develop engines that will be clean enough to meet federal standards without extra equipment. But they insist that this...
Radcliffe will now have over a week to rest on its laurels and prepare for its next meet, the New England Championships, to be staged in Providence, R.I. next Friday. In the meet, Radcliffe will face stiff opposition from both Brown and the University of Maine, each of whom the Crimson defeated earlier this season...