Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local baseball enthusiasts will get their first chance to see Harvard's remarkable baseball squad this afternoon when the Crimson puts its undefeated league record on the line against Boston University at the Soldiers Field diamond. Game time...
...more imaginative friend describes it, "Some famous wit--was it Dr. Johnson?--said of a sentence of hanging that 'it concentrates the mind wonderfully'. So also jumping--in particular that delirious moment of exit--concentrates consciousness in a blindingly bright, diamond hard point. Mind has triumphed; this is the moment of pure reason...
...same year, Roy Harris joined la boulangerie. From Harvard, in a later generation, came Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, and Arthur Berger. Elliott Carter, Marc Blitzstein, Bernard Rogers, Roger Goeb, David Diamond, Ross Lee Finney, Howard Swanson, Easley Blackwood--all composed under her tutelage. Among the Europeans she taught were Igor Markevitch, Jean Francaix, Antoni Szalowski, and Darius Milhaud...
...friends threw a little party her seventieth birthday, at the of Igor Markevitch in the Swiss As ever, she was thin, almost in Copland's term, "nun-like." Markevitch children presented her $3,000 diamond purchased by boulangerie, and the guests broke a chorus composed for the by former student Francis Poulence was a birthday party such as few enjoy; Mlle. Boulanger had the congratulations of the musical world...
Blue Puff. Physicist Kiyo Tomiyasu, 42, technical director of General Electric Co.'s laser lab, is particularly proud of the ease with which one of his lasers has drilled holes in a pea-sized black synthetic diamond. Diamonds, which are the hard est things known to man, have been drilled before, but the process is difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon...