With some translations you lose so much in the original.

Ear Trumpet totters onto the scene once more, and in yet another manifestation. ET's first appearance, as a newspaper column, was back in 1972, when we were all very young -- Seiji Ozawa's appointment as BSO Music Director was greeted with enthusiasm -- how little we knew! -- and there was something called the underground press. But that is a story (perhaps) for later on ...

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