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...gives out some high chest notes with a resonant fullness, an expression of heart-rending grief, and a beauty of tone that so far nothing had led one to expect. A petrified silence reigns in the house, people hold their breath, amazement and admiration are. blended in a mood akin to fear. There is, in fact, reason for fear until that extraordinary phrase comes to an end. . . -Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra...
Varsity crew coach Harvey Love was foaming mad yesterday afternoon. Anonymous pranksters had poured several bottles of soap into the winter rowing tank. The product was akin to an exploded laundry when the first eight plied their oars in the innocent looking mixture...
Their enemy was "Japanese B," a form of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) akin to those forms which plagued St. Louis in 1933 and recently centered in southern Indiana (TIME, Oct. 10). The nature of the illness has long been known, along with the fact that it breaks out every summer in most of Japan, parts of Manchuria and all of Korea, and a few weeks later in Russia's Maritime Prov ince. However, the most important questions could not be answered for years: How is the disease transmitted? Where does it come from? Who is susceptible...
...centuries "Mannerism" has been a dirty word in the art historian's book, meaning "in the manner of" -or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the painters who, in the century from 1520 to 1,620, tried to ape the much-admired manner of Michelangelo and Raphael, but, in missing the essence, turned out clumsy, valueless paintings. But art critics are now making an abrupt about-face. The long-despised Mannerists have at last been rescued from the dustbin and brushed off, to become Europe's latest vogue...
This was a sport for navigator types-more akin to chess than racing-and in the next day's race, speed alone would count for nothing. Only the official observer on each boat would carry a watch; only he would be able to record just how close his skipper was keeping to his estimates. If all went well, if navigational skill was equal to predicted-log equations, every boat would churn past the finish line at Block Island at exactly 7 p.m. The time-measured margin of error (including the error at each control point) would determine the winner...