Word: victor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ITZHAK PERLMAN: TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERTO IN D AND DVOŘÁK ROMANCE IN F (RCA Victor). Although he and Stravinsky were practically contemporaries, Tchaikovsky worked at the other end of the musical spectrum. His melodies and orchestration are positively voluptuous. And Violinist Perlman knows how to make the most of his emotional appeal. The Dvořák concerto on the rest of the record is a reliable staple of most record libraries...
...cells in the most highly developed part of the brain (the cortex) produced a special kind of RNA as well as proteins. A similar thing happened in goldfish that were forced to learn a new kind of swimming by having buoyant plastic foam stuck under their chins by Dr. Victor Shashoua of M.I.T. Fish that Dr. Shashoua made work just as hard swimming against a current, but without learning anything new, did not produce extra...
...best, truest friend." It is not that boys are not fond of horses. The last thing Victor Esch Jr., 10, does before he goes to bed in Potomac, Md., is shine a spotlight out of the window to be sure his pony Misty is all right. But girls are more lavish with their affection. "He's my best, truest friend," says Mary Jay Harrigan, 8, who spends her afternoons after school in Colebrook, N.H., riding her 21-year-old chestnut gelding Ahab the Arab. When Sue Ann Meyer returned home from camp to her parents in Lincoln, Mass...
Belgium, when art nouveau was in flower, boasted one of its veritable orchids, Architect Victor Horta. Although four of Horta's buildings have been redesigned, destroyed by fire or demolished, the 66-room manse that he did for Baron van Eetvelde, Belgium's first Governor of the Congo, is preserved much as Horta left it. Moreover, in the annex of the hotel lives Architect Jean Delhaye, a kind of one-man Belgian fin de siècle society who is directing the reconstruction of the home Horta built for himself in Brussels, so that it can open next...
...superbly controlled, powerful Penn junior varsity last week took Harvard by two lengths. There was never any question about the victor, as Harvard could not settle down the stroke to an effective racing cadence. A steadier Harvard junior varsity could do strikingly better against the Red and Blue tomorrow, but is doubtful that they can do well enough...