Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes...
Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books...
...shortest and fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge. This leads to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan, Conn., and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...directed studies program takes about 40 students each year through the freshman and sophomore years and prescribes practically all their courses. Applicants for the program are screened to form a cross-section of the undergraduate body in regard to scholastic and social history, aptitudes, and predicted college record...
...little urban center south of the Wilbur Cross Parkway expects a fairly peaceful, if highly profitable, weekend...