Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism By Robert Barsky The MIT Press, 320 pages, $29.95. Linguistics was a late arrival on the academic scene.

It would have been hard to predict going in, but Sunday afternoon's contemporary music concert by Ensemble Zellig - a program of short, sparse chamber pieces performed by a group little known ...

Ensemble Zellig: The French new-music group comes to the Bay Area for the first time, with a program of works by Don Freund, Gerald Shapiro, Philippe Hersant and UC Berkeley Professor Edmund ...