Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some three miles north of the airport, in the village of Berg, Mrs. Joseph Verhoeven saw the plane pitch and yaw. "It was so low," she said, "I could see people looking at me from inside the plane and gesturing. I held my hand up to them. Then the airplane stopped right in the air. It was as if it were hanging there on something. The whole thing was shaking terribly, as if it were struggling to get started moving again. But something was holding it back. Then an amazing thing happened. The plane began to point...
...part of two hours, Strauss's orchestra rages, shrieks and howls with a kind of demented fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles with frank Freudian overtones of a kind the operatic stage had not seen before and would not see again until Berg's Wozzeck. All in all, the audience tended to agree with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again. "It was frightful," said she. "We were a set of madwomen. There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived to reach...
...four-day conference will deal mainly with Algerian culture and heritage, said organizer Alex Korns '62, and NSA representative Don Clifford. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, and Elliot J. Berg, teaching fellow in Economics, will address the group...
...nations, as Elliot Berg (another local peace corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited to indoctrination and travel expenses. Representatives of Western Nigeria and Kenya have expressed interest in the plan on this basis...
...most African nations, the personnel problem at the secondary school level is critical, Berg added. The youth corps must try to hit specifically at this problem and should not become a "massive work camp" for idealistic Americans...