Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's most worldly ivory tower is tiny All Souls College, the select nook at Oxford University that since 1438 has operated on the theory that men of learning should also be men of influence. All Souls consists of 52 Fellows, ranging from brilliant graduate students who conduct research of "unfathomable depth" for up to 14 years, to the most active leaders of British culture and politics...
Secondhand Trumpet. Back home in Cleveland, where his father is a factory worker, gifted Vince La Selva begged for and got a secondhand trumpet when he was eight. As a prized member of his high school band, La Selva was allowed to conduct occasionally, but when he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, it was to study the trumpet. At Juilliard, La Selva organized a 60-member student orchestra, later revived it when the Army stationed him at Governors Island...
...experience, one might also be worried over the lack of representative functions outlined in the original Bailey plan. The special attribute of an elected council is its representative nature; if that quality is left unexploited, it is hard to see any point in a Student Council. Any group can conduct studies and develop reports. Only an elected organization can hope to do this from the standpoint of current student opinion. There is little doubt that undergraduates desire to make their will known: petitions circulate constantly through the Houses and letters jam the CRIMSON bulletin board. The trouble is that these...
There was a time when actions like our now admitted intervention in Cuba were called "brinksmanship." There was a time also when Adlai Stevenson would have spoken out against our conduct in this affair as did, to his lasting credit, Senator Wayne Morse. Those were the days when Senator Kennedy was rapping President Eisenhower for publicly and vainly lying about our role in the U-2 incident...
...into the Paris Conservatory as a composition student. In 1915 he moved to New York, soon formed a little-appreciated orchestra devoted to contemporary works. He refused to submit himself, he said, "to sounds that have already been heard," indignantly rejected an offer of $14,000 a year to conduct at the Capitol Theater in New York. "What do you think I am," asked Varèse -"a whore?" After turning out such ear-wrenching but nonelectronic works as Arcana and Ameriques, he fell silent for 18 years while he speculated on the musical possibilities of electronic noise...