Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Tillinghast is utterly fluent, "Not Being There" is not one of his best, but his expert use of the first person singular and infallible control over the progression of a poem enable him to be both professional and insurrectionary. And Robert Shaw offers a long, successful suite of voices from a madhouse, something like Spoon River Anthology. Shaw handles forms extermely well; his quatrains make him the most entertaining poet in the issue...
...acre, in order to use them as a city dump; other land near by with industrial possibilities is going for $1,000 an acre. "This has taken on the dimensions of a national land lottery," insists William H. Scofield, the Agriculture Department's top real-estate-research expert. "A few lucky owners will realize handsome returns. Thousands more will have to wait until cities really need the land...
...BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. General Manager Rudolf Bing, 64, cocked an expert ear at all the noise and reported: "We're in great shape." Then the kids settled down for a performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, the first show in the new quarters, which open officially in September...
...help celebrate its birthday, Kansas invited a sampling of intellectuals: Designer Buckminster Fuller, former Supreme Court Justice Charles Whittaker, Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, Broadway Producer-Director Harold Clurman, Rule-of-Law Expert Arthur Larson. But the center of attention was a long-dead Kansas woman, Carry Nation. For the centennial observation, which will go on for six months, Composer Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), now a visiting professor at K.U., wrote an opera about that booze-hating feminist's tortured marriage and bar-smashing career. Now in rehearsal at the university's handsome...
Sternberg has been on the Faculty since 1959 and is an expert in differential geometry. He teaches Math 55b and Math 267. In addition, Sternberg is a Talmudic scholar...