Word: docs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-aged Ph.D. named Doc, previously characterized in Cannery Row by Steinbeck as "half Christ and half satyr," who spends a lot of his nondrinking time stimulating a tankful of octopuses into apoplexy, for research purposes...
...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...
...Doc," as teachers, received the most appropriate of birthday presents: songs by four of his most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
Even more significant as an indication of his stature was the remainder of the program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another...