Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...States. He attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma mater...
According to Filene, CORE testers found evidence of discrimination on two occasions. Last Tuesday, Wattendorf agents allegedly showed a white woman several apartments after telling a Negro none were available. On Friday, Filene said, Wattendorf sales manager John Coleman agreed to show an apartment to the Negro, Mrs. Alma Williams, and then showed her one in a vandalized building in a Negro section...
After receiving this degree, she taught at Wheelock College for two years. But when offered the directorship of Radcliffe's Women's Archives and of the Radcliffe seminar program for adult women in 1959, Mrs. Solomon was glad to return to her alma mater. The Archives include one of the country's most complete collections of the diaries and letters of noted women; Mrs. Solomon enjoys working with the varied scholars who use these documents. "You never know who's going to come in to do research," she says, "and I love the quest for new manuscripts." Mrs. Solomon will...
...best only seven-or eight-tenths finished; most scholars feared that the work was too personal and too fragmentary ever to be completed by another hand. But undaunted British Musicologist Deryck Cooke went ahead, fused and orchestrated the score. Without even listening to it, the composer's widow Alma emotionally vetoed publication in 1960, but last week came word that she had finally heard the tape and changed her mind. The world premiere performance will be by the London Symphony Orchestra next August; Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy has asked to conduct the U.S. premiere at the opening...
...actors in Hud provide good support for Newman. Melvyn Douglas' Homer is a bit too Isaiah-like; he oversimplifies his role, but without serious damage to the film's impact. Brandon de Wilde, as Lon, performs with the right mixture of naivete and poignant adolescent embarrasment. Patricia Neal, as Alma, the maid, is outstanding; she is convincing and matter-of-fact...