Word: classics
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...Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of states," says the classic definition. This calls to mind some Rembrandtian statesman returning from a foreign court to whisper a few words of intelligence into the ear of a king. As expanded by the State Department, the job of reporting has thousands of bevested young officers obsessively sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black...
...again the end of opera was proclaimed. To many, the most recent "end" came with Richard Strauss, who died in 1949. When Alban Berg's magnificent Wozzek was first performed in 1925, some people covered their ears in horror; today it is widely accepted as an almost mellow classic. Julius Rudel, director of Manhattan's enterprising New York City Opera, receives and reads 50 new opera scores a year. All kinds of opera will still be written, even in an age which seems to many sadly unoperatic-perhaps about Marilyn Monroe, or about Cassius Clay, or the astronauts...
...dark art of menace. Polanski's first English-language film, Repulsion at first glance looks like a case study of a fragile psychopath. At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...
Died. Arthur Holmes, 75, foremost British geologist, author of the classic textbook, Principles of Physical Geology, whose pioneering use of radioactivity as early as 1913 in determining the age of rocks paved the way for the geological time scale, which places the origins of the earth at 4.5 billion years; of uremic poisoning; in London...