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...drawn from ranching life. But spiritual need is only one reason why people attend. Some are drawn by nostalgia for the Old West; for others, the annual revival is an important social event-sometimes a family's only opportunity to see old friends in the county. Says Sid Burchard, a Texas ranch owner who has been attending since he was eight: "The camp meeting brings people to God when nothing else will...
Cleveland traces its Diana back to 1796, when Amsterdam Widow Elizabeth Hooft sold it. The painting was authenticated in 1959 by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard. then the greatest living Rubens expert, who flatly discounted rumors that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing out the dog that Diana caresses, said that Snyders "could never have created on his own an animal so highly expressive both in movement and feeling." The birds in the background, the flowers in the foreground, the "freshness and luminous color," he concluded, stamped it an early Rubens original...
...Brattle Street Forum will discuss "The City and History" next Tuesday in Loeb Experimental Theatre at 4:20 p.m. participants will be Dennis W. Brogan, professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge; John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities and Social Science at M.I.T.; Norton E. Long, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; Carl E. Schorsks, professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley; and Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo...
According to John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities at MIT and General Chairman of the conference, the primary focus of the meeting will be academic rather than practical. That is, the conference will seek first to encourage a more active study of urban history, rather than explicitly offer concrete solutions to current problems. But it is hoped, too, that the papers and discussions will provide some fruitful generalizations about cities of the past that may be applied to the study of cities in the present. Then these new concepts and leading ideas might provide an intellectual foundation for contemporary city...
NORBERT WIENER JOHN E. BURCHARD WALTER H. STOCKMAYER HERMAN FESHBACH GEORGE SCATCHARD DAVID H. FREEMAN Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass...