Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week in San Francisco. On the high (220-ft.) Golden Gate Bridge stood Ned Wells, 26, a commercial photographer who makes his living taking pictures of incoming ships from the bridge for a studio that peddles prints to crews and passengers. Fifteen hundred feet away, Wells saw a woman climb over the rail of the bridge and stand hesitantly on a girder. She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health...
...knew about other people, Gogol knew nothing about himself. After the tremendous success of Dead Souls, he had a vision of "Russia . . . turning upon me eyes full of expectation." He felt a sudden strength, and a longing to "climb that ladder." In his exaltation he began to wonder if his "great task" was not, after all, to save his generation. He took up a sequel to Dead Souls, in which he sought to illumine good as in the first volume he had exposed evil. His feet had left the ground; he could not push the work to completion...
...route, through Nepal, leads to the southwest face. It was thoroughly reconnoitered by a British party last summer. Led by veteran Himalayaman Eric Shipton, the Britons climbed to a 20,000-ft. buttress on nearby Pumori for a glimpse of a new route. They found they could see right over the treacherous ice fall to the head of the Western Cwm,t about 2,500-ft. below the South Col* (see diagram). To Shipton it looked as if there was a direct route up to the 25,000-ft. mark on Lhotse, followed by a traverse to the South...
...actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...
First speaker was Karl Geiringer (second from left) chairman of the Boston University School of Music. Geiringer, a musicologist, spoke on the influences of Rennaissance and Gothic music on modern style. He defined musical history as "a spiral upwards instead of a direct climb. At times, we reach a point surprisingly near where our forebearers stood...