Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American relations, suggested some concrete ways to improve them. Speaking to alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost $9 billion") and historical ("Our people all came here, primarily from Western Europe, in search of freedom and opportunity...
...Yale under Paul Hindemith, moved on to Paris, where he became a student of Nadia Boulanger, for 35 years the musical nanny of top U.S. composers (TIME, Sept. 30, 1957). Now an instructor in the music department at the University of Chicago, Blackwood insists that his composition has no direct connection "with the times in which we live." Does he regard himself as beat? "Anybody looking at my picture," says Blackwood, "could tell that...
...make the idea work, the inventors had to develop a system of electric pulse motors that were able to direct a machine to perform all the intricate steps contained on the tape. Called pulse-servos, such motors have been in operation for years; the problem was that the fastest available could handle only 1,700 pulses per second, which was not enough for really sophisticated work. The great breakthrough came with the development of a super pulse-servo that could handle 6,000 pulses per second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start...
Maillol once wrote to a friend, "I would have made a bad prose author. Poetry resembles sculpture so much more...." These words express perfectly the spirit of the sculptor. He was never involved with circumstance, with anti-climax. His work, in part or in whole, constitutes an ode, clear, direct and without dissonance...
...severely criticized. At these meetings, the group "degenerates into a kind of gentleman's club, a mutual admiration society." He says that there is "little intellectual meeting ground between the various academic disciplines," and that the criticisms of the readings are therefore not very helpful. This statement is the direct antithesis of Dean Devane's comment, "I suspect that the criticism from the fellow student is even more worthwhile than that from his elders...