Word: conductors
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George Pierce Baker '88, conductor of the famous 47 Workshop (of which Eugene O'Neill and Thomas Wolfe are alumni), fought in the teens and twenties to increase Harvard's concern and expenditure for drama. Baker wanted to expand his workshop in play writing and dramatic technique into a comprehensive drama school: Harvard would not have him, so he went to Yale where he inaugurated what is now considered the finest drama school in the country...
Leonard Bernstein '39--the famous pianist, composer and conductor--will be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Bernstein, who is currently Laureate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, will deliver a series of lectures on "The Art of Interpretation...
...want to know." Rudel came to the U.S. in 1938 as a teen-age refugee from Vienna. Studying music on scholarships at settlement schools and later at Manhattan's Mannes College, he supported himself by working part time in a button-dyeing factory. After graduation he became assistant conductor at Mannes at a salary of $35 a month. "We used to turn in the milk bottles so he would have enough money to go to work," remembers his wife Rita. A neuropsychologist, she raised their two daughters (now married) and Son Anthony, 14, more or less on the side...
...used to transfer heat from inside the reactor's core to a steam-producing boiler outside. Unlike conventional reactors, which use water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive materials...