Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Nor, he added, should free scholarship become the handmaiden of the Federal Government. "The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a Government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money...
...genesis in a church-supported student strike against the strong-arm regime last November. Duvalier replied by closing the schools for Christmas a month early and expelling the then ranking churchman. He drew up a law that held parents responsible for the students' attendance and conduct under pain of severe penalties. Once again, the church sided with the youngsters. As students prepared another strike, a group of teaching priests and nuns addressed a letter to Duvalier with barbed questions about...
...Sophomores Holmes and Hunter got a friendly welcome from every teacher, were convoyed by solicitous students and officials. Every time Charlayne heard an insult, she found a white girl beside her saying, "Just ignore those people." University President O. C. Aderhold proudly praised his students for "good judgment and conduct," and it was a fact that all through the week most students refused to oppose integration and a stout minority publicly supported...
Samuel Krachmalnick, 33, has signed a two-year contract with the Zurich Opera. Reputed to be a passionate hater of singers, Krachmalnick longs to conduct in the concert hall but has proved so successful at Zurich that he is already tabbed as one of the world's ranking Wagnerians. St. Louis-born Krachmalnick played French horn in Washington's National Symphony, became convinced from careful scrutiny of guest conductors that "if these jokers can do it, it's got to be easy." From Juilliard, where his early attempts at conducting were roundly panned, he graduated to conducting...
...Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting in earnest, soon got his own chamber orchestra and began winning...