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When we got back to the Square, the snowfall was dying out and it was late, but it could have been the next day or forty years earlier for all we felt of time. The snow lay thick on the ground, although it was already melting. We had a drink, and slid in the slush, and threw a few snowballs. But our night would soon be morning, so we headed for home. The next day, I set back to work on papers and readings I had left undone, with one more daydream to distract...
...recreational sports scene, I have just received word from the Metropolitan District Commission that the ice on the Charles River is no longer thick enough to skate on. You heard it here first--no more skating on the Charles. Or else...
Biggs's eyes widened in mock astonishment at the end of the story. He paused, and then, in good-humored outrage, questioned the captive listeners in his rolled-R thick English accent: "What is this pr-r-r-r-rune doing in Carnegie Hall...
...cooperative harmony but rather in a duel to the death, voice versus instruments. Such an unequal contest can have only one result. Not even Shattuck's soaring soprano can overcome the determined opposition of the cymbals--especially since their frequencies are very close. Part of the problem is the thick-textured score, with its constant cacophony and acoustical fireworks; part of the trouble is the structure of Agassiz, which lacks a pit or shell to muffle the orchestra. Still, director Leslie Koenig and musical director Ken Getz should have worked out some compromise so that the audience could hear...
...give you some French fries. I'm not sitting here making great decisions." That is pure Jordan, or "Jerden," as the name is pronounced down home. To all appearances, he is the good ole boy come to Washington: joshing, tieless, rumpled, feet on desk, a thick scallop of hair falling across an unlined, apple-cheeked face that is as unrevealing of emotion as a painted Easter egg. Operating only 50 steps from the Oval Office, Jordan, 32, still looks as if he would be more at home with the boys in Billy Carter's filling station...