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This quiz was compiled by Michelle Healy, Bruce Schoenfeld and David Wilson. Answers will appear next week in The Crimson. The winner will receive a copy of the Ultimate Baseball Book with text by David Nemec, considered to be one of the greatest baseball historians ever. Entries must be received by Wednesday at The Sports Cube, The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton...
...photographers are up and away. The seats on the press bus are first come, first serve. More journalists have applied for press credentials than they did for John F. Kennedy's funeral. Everybody is clutching cameras and notebooks and pens and their partners. The archdiocese recruit hands out the text of the Pope's address. All that shorthand for nothing...
...existing relationships. I finally put forward the American position on Taiwan as follows: "The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China ... The United States Government does not challenge that position." Chou and I refined the text until at 8:10 a.m., concluding a nearly nonstop session of 24 hours, we had agreed on the main outline. We had scheduled our departure for 9 a.m. Chou took me to the door of the guesthouse and spoke to me for the first time in English: "Come back soon...
STRAIGHTFORWARD enactments of Wagner's text complement the implicit parody of the hand-puppets and dummies. For the entry into Valhalla over the rainbow bridge in Rheingold, the bridge is projected through a transparency onto the rear wall of the stage; Brunnhilde's enchantment at the end of Walkure occurs atop a ladder, wrapped in a crimson cape and defended by a cordon of flashing lights; for the funeral march in Gotterdammerung, Siegfried's body is set in a huge wooden cart that Brunnhilde, haloed by a spotlight, pulls along. Sellars manages these scenes better than many directors with...
Talbott's weaknesses as a writer are revealed by his heavy reliance on anecdotes which he uses to spice up his sometimes detailed and statistical approach. While some of the stories are snappy--and help the otherwise plodding text move along--others read like a hyped-up version of The President's Plane is Missing. When he recounts a bargaining exrhange between former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, he builds his narrative to the point where the two are talking about the relative effectiveness of the B-1 and B-52 bombers...