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...look around Wigglesworth B-21 and start counting, you will find two book cases, four closets, four towel racks and four tooth-brush holders. There are three bedroom cubicles and a living room cluttered with unpacked boxes and randomly positioned furniture. Wigglesworth B-21, originally a triple, makes a reasonably comfortable quad. But this year five freshmen are living there...
...which they swarmed. Supposedly the young groupies, who numbered in the hundreds, lined up at the box office each week at four in the afternoon; by eight, the line trailed blocks away. After the concert, reports one biographer, the youngsters would loiter in the backstage area just to brush the maestro's sleeve as he hurried to his limousine. None of the extramusical sycophancy would have turned Stokowski's head. He was unjustly thought an egotist because of his theatrics on the podium, his links with wealthy and glamorous Hollywood women and his self-styled revolutionary manner. But even...
...some extent, the visit was part of a broad tactical maneuver by the Communist regime of János Kádár. On the brink of next month's talks on the Helsinki accord, Hungary is eager to brush up its image and counteract complaints about church restrictions from both Hungarian and U.S. Christians. In fact, Hungary probably has the most liberal church policy among Warsaw Pact countries. Sunday schools and youth retreats are permitted. Bibles, though expensive, are available. Even so, open evangelism and freedom of church publication in the Western sense are unknown. Evangelical Christians...
Forty years earlier in his career, Matisse had demonstrated, with his big canvases of dancing figures, that he was a master of energetic motion. There is a clear difference, though, between the degree of energy that a pencil or brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper...
...approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser: "We are going back to the basic malariology abandoned in the 1950s with the advent of the broad-brush chemical approach." The great hope, he says, is for an antimalarial vaccine. But that, he concedes, is at least a decade away...