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...loveliest and deepest speeches ever penned, in which he describes Oedipus' last moments on earth and his mystical, saintly end. But instead of having the Messenger quote the words of the gods, Brooks has these lines delivered by an unseen voice on the second-floor ambulatory as a modern counterpart of the ancient theologeion, a special platform for the gods...
Fortunately, the book is not composed exclusively of such circular efforts at conversion. For those already convinced that truth is so ephemeral that dissension is its worldly counterpart, and prepared, despite the lack of public support, to work for more rigorous training of young citizens, Dr. Conant offers a program. This program is first touched upon when he deals with the problem of technical training, and is more fully explored in the 'original' essay on the institutional structure of education...
...possible angle. In 14 issues it has explored such facets as 1) Carmen's progress from vulgarity to respectability among opera lovers; 2) the history of the first performance; 3) the story of Prosper Merimee, author of the original story; 4) the relation between Carmen and her male counterpart, Don Giovanni; 5) Carmen in Korea. Each time one of the old operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz and her two assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something old but new, e.g., next season's La Périchole (Offenbach), never before performed...
That afternoon the Soviet power chief and his British counterpart, Lord Citrine, exchanged reminiscences over claret* and quotes from roughhewn Scots Poet Bobbie Burns. It turned out, in fact, that Malenkov had a Soviet edition of Burns in Russian right in his pocket. "A man's a man for a' that, for a' that an' a' that . . . The honest man, tho e'er sae puir, is king of men for a' that." Malenkov read in Russian, while an interpreter provided the Scots burr. "A very friendly man," said Lord Citrine later, "with...
Heavy emphasis on the academic aspects of education not only results in pranks, but also leads the Tech student to form an entirely different set of loyalties and faculty contacts than his Harvard counterpart. In addition, it can tend to make him somewhat one-sided by depriving him of free time for non-academic pursuits...