Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mind Jail." Then came phone calls from his Manhattan lawyer Arnold Bauman. On the basis of these conversations Gilbert figured he might beat his raps-or some of them. Buoyed by that thought and the prospect of a lighter sentence if he returned voluntarily, Gilbert winged back. He was still vowing to "pay off all those people who had faith in me and then lost everything they had," which would take some doing if the feds got all the money they were seeking. Mostly, though, Playboy Gilbert seemed to be longing for the company of an audience...
What made the chorale's success doubly surprising was the fact that Conductor Shaw made no compromise with his audience. He not only included Friede auf Erden by Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who is ideologically unacceptable in Russian musical circles, but he also scheduled a great deal of religious music, which is virtually never heard in Russian concert halls. Shaw, 46, was surprised by the Russians' fervent response. Said he: "You couldn't ask for anything more." Soviet Deputy Cultural Minister Alexander Kuznetsov offered a hopeful explanation. "We Russians," said he, "also understand things of the spirit...
...also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
...simply a mammoth mirror of the world around it, and the intellectuals who flog advertising are using it, consciously or unconsciously, as a whipping boy for all that they dislike about U.S. society and the U.S. character. In the most effective rebuttal any adman has yet made to Arnold Toynbee, William Bernbach wrote: "Mr. Toynbee's real hate is not advertising. It is the economy of abundance . . . If Mr. Toynbee believes a materialistic society is a bad one (and I am not saying he is wrong in that belief), then he owes it to mankind to speak out against...
While most historians have trouble explaining one civilization, British Historian Arnold Toynbee sweeps grandly over them all, comparing Machiavelli to St. Benedict, Moses to Mohammed. But a historian who paints so vast a canvas is bound to fudge some of the details. One of the disconcerting details of A Study of History has now been blown up to book-length size, where it is more disturbing than ever. It is Toynbee's casual indifference to the menace of Communism...