Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following will hold office for four years beginning Jan. 1, 1960: George Z.F. Bereday, professo of Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Henry S. Dyer '27, vice-president, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, N.J.; James A. Lewis, vice-president of student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Ernest Stabler, professor of Education and chairman of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn...
Reginald R. Isaacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and co-director of the project, said the study is the first such cooperative venture with Yale, but is simply a part of the academic work at the Gradaute School of Design rather than a concentrated study with any state and municipal governments...
Poet von Hofmannsthal's libretto, embroidered with the common myths of half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who is unable to cast a shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange...
...bring Strauss's vision to the theater, opera designers decked the cast in blazing costumes, filled the stage with striking Daliesque sets. Standouts of a superb cast were California-born Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis as a malevolent nurse and German Soprano Marianne Schech as the dyer's wife. Conductor Leopold Ludwig whipped his orchestra through the complex, luxuriant score with a fine sense of surging lyricism, a deft feel for the opera's shadow-flittery moods. "No matter what may happen to the Giants," glowed the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein, "San Francisco won the pennant Friday...
...cannot, of course, quibble with Dyer-Bennet's success at mastering his craft. For an age that thrives on contrived noise misnamed music, he insists--successfully--on preserving the integrity of the music he sings and plays...