Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from one exciting event to another, from one "sock on the jaw" (Chekhov's phrase) to another; he has turned his back on the technique of say, Ibsen and Strindberg. He has, in effect, turned from the solo concerto with orchestra to the more subtle and contrapuntal interplay of chamber music...
...week's end, the first box was opened by a technician working with surgical care as his gloved hands reached into a sealed vacuum chamber, where the lunar package had been placed. While four NASA geologists looked on, he slowly drew off any gases that might have been given off by the rocks, opened the box, then removed a piece of foil that had been used to trap solar particles and two lunar core samples. Finally, he opened the plastic bag containing the rocks themselves. The scientific observers said that the 15 or so rocks -the largest...
That the few men who run Harvard are afraid of the student body is shown by how they have chosen to exercise repression; in my case, as in all others, through private star-chamber proceedings with punishments announced after the normal school year was over and students had gone home. But these students will return in the fall, and in their eyes the Corporation and the Administration will have been increasingly isolated and exposed by their attempts to punish the leadership of the struggle against ROTC and expansion...
...PROVENCE (through July 31). The Orchestre de Paris, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, Karl Miinchinger and others, will be in residence at this spa 17 miles north of Marseille. A wide spectrum of traditional and 20th century repertory will be offered in symphonic and chamber music programs. Also on the schedule is a series of musical films, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Von Karajan, A Homage to Edgar Varèse, and a feature on avant-garde Composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen...
Until the 1960s, Philadelphia was a municipal magazine that never ventured much beyond chamber of commerce puffs. Since then it has developed a talent for muckraking and a willingness to take on just about anyone-even so unlikely a figure as Pearl Buck. There she was, some days ago, a silver-haired, 77-year-old Nobel-and Pulitzer-prize winning author, meeting the press to try to cover up for a colleague. He had been accused, in Philadelphia's pages, of mishandling charitable funds and making homosexual advances to the Korean boys he was supposed to be helping...