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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most opulent dramatic soprano voice in the land belongs to a singer rarely seen on an opera stage: 39-year-old Eileen Farrell. For more than a decade Singer Farrell has been dazzling audiences and critics alike from concert-hall stages. But partly because of her size (5 ft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Star for the Met | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The piano literature for one hand can pretty well be numbered on the fingers of two. Scriabin, Brahms. Ravel and Strauss all took a shot at it, along with such moderns as Benjamin Britten and Leos Janacek.* The rest of the left-hand repertory is pretty much what the trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

U.S. engineering schools are often criticized for being behind the scientific times; their enrollments have stagnated. This week the Ford Foundation, which overlooked the field up to now, marched in with a massive $19.05 million gift to four institutes of technology (Caltech, Carnegie, Case, M.I.T.) and six universities (U.C.L.A., Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Windfall for Engineers | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Last week the six winners looked more like close-cropped Spartans cut loose in Athens. Donning black robes and boarding bicycles, they found Oxford a startling experience. They met their tutors, pondered invitations to join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment: Oxford | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Scope & Depth. Everywhere lay temptations to loaf for the next two years, forget that the Oxford tour ends with a do-or-die final examination. Officially on active duty, military Rhodesmen draw full lieutenant's pay as well as the $2,100 annual Rhodes stipend. Attached to the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment: Oxford | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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