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...death." At the age of four, he began studying the piano with his father, the church organist in Vendrell. At twelve, he was already a virtuoso cello player and was on his way to revolutionizing cello technique. "There was something very awkward and unnatural in playing with a stiff arm and with one's elbows close to one's sides," he explains. "We had to hold a book under the armpit of our bowing arm while we were learning." Casals threw away the book, devised a method that freed the arms and improved left-hand fingering. He opened...
...grand-jury hearings produce civil rights indictments, many means of protest now widely used on campus-especially those that keep other students from their classes-might face stiff new federal penalties. Control of campus discipline would continue to shift from college officials to civil authorities...
...scrub nurse, who handles sterile instruments, was similarly attired. Their patient was Margaret Fales, 59, a credit manager, who had been so crippled that walking was unbearably painful. By last week Miss Fales was free of the pain that had driven her to surgery; her hips were a bit stiff in the morning and she tired by afternoon-but she could walk...
...these troubles have been exacerbated by G.M.'s rather stiff response to Ralph Nader. In the latest joust, a group of lawyers backed by Nader in the "Project for Corporate Responsibility" bought a dozen G.M. shares and suggested that a series of consumer-oriented resolutions be put to a vote at the annual meeting. G.M. brusquely refused. To G.M.'s chagrin, the Securities and Exchange Commission then ordered it to put two of the resolutions to a vote. One would add three public representatives to G.M.'s board; the other would create a committee, partially made...
...them to paint-to paint things that no one had painted before. They recorded events, people, plains and waterfalls in a sparse. direct style. Though these artists used traditional methods of perspective, often minimal training and a choice of unusual subjects makes the work look specifically American. Figures are stiff, sometimes doll-like in position even though details of appearance are neatly printed out. Artists seized concrete elements around him to fit into the crisp lines on the canvas...