Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dr. Hitson lived in a Burmese village for a year and a half, and concluded that paternal domination makes murder a far more likely result of mental illness than suicide. The father requires obedience by both wife and children, who become subdued, she stated, and this domination produces outward-directed...
Who bombed Knechtsand? At first, suspicion was directed at Britain's R.A.F., which used the sandbar as a bombing range after World War II. A British official assured the government of Lower Saxony that none of its planes based in Germany had been responsible. The following day London said...
Hostages to Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone...
Died. Eduard Alexander van Beinum, 58, one of the world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart...
The main criticism that can be directed at the Requiem is the prominence of the text, and the presence of several passages which do little more than declaim words, detracting from the musical interest and continuity. Since the text is not liturgical, but rather passages from the Bible chosen by...