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...wanting to change jobs, there is only a plaque to mark the spot on which the family home stood. In Cothen, where Bach worked for the music-loving Prince Leopold from 1717 to 1723, producing among other masterworks the Brandenburg Concertos, the exact identity of Bach's home is uncertain. And in Leipzig, the Saxon center of commerce and learning, where Bach spent the last 27 years of his life, the school in which Bach lived and taught was torn down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach and Handel At the Wall | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Acorn Park," the Levins Laboratory is located. Though security reasons could be cited, the withholding of such information could introduce an error of several hundred feet in the Advisory Committee's estimate of the range of toxic effects from a leak or explosion, and consequently, make the already highly uncertain assessment practically useless...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: No Easy Solution | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...politics left the University with the departure of Ethel Klein for Columbia. Of the History Department's more than 100 courses, the three specifically focusing on women are taught by a junior faculty member who will be on leave next fall and whose future at Harvard is equally uncertain. While Women's History Week demonstrated decisively the enthusiasm on campus for women's studies, unless the committee and the University commit to establishing a real program the most students can hope for is a week of excitement each February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimize the Field | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...timing of the debate and vote was uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Opens Debate on Meese Nomination | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...MENTION the name of Diane Arbus on a street corner in Manhattan, you are likely to hear murmuring-- "Oh, the freak photographer" or, "Her photos are strange," followed by an uncertain "What do you think of her stuff...

Author: By Eunice L. An, | Title: Arbus's Freaky World | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

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