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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ENDORSE THE RECENT DECISIONS OF THE REGENTS [in firing President Philip Wernette -TIME, Feb. 16]. WE AFFIRM FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT [Tom Popejoy]. WE EXPRESS COMPLETE ASSURANCE THAT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
Besides military and civilian officials who have been unable to express their views publicly, the opposition includes prominent religious and educational leaders . . . [who] feel that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
Frank O'Connor of County Cork is blessed with a rare, enviable talent: he can express serious ideas in blandly humorous, seemingly inconsequential stories. The twelve tart tales in this book create an imaginary world as real, and certainly as relevant, as daily experience itself...
...degree. It is very nearly one of opposites. The piano's strings are struck by a hammer; those of the harpsichord are plucked. When played in combination with a piano, Bach and Mozart violin sonatas can be brilliant, noble, dramatic, tender, melodically beautiful--but they can never express the intimacy that should characterize classical chamber music. When played by harpsichord and violin, this intimacy is never lost. The two instruments blend into each other almost as if they were one; and the music seems to become a part of the listener's consciousness, rather than the object of his attention...
...wish to express our thanks to Senator Saltonstall and his colleagues for the full and judicious consideration they have given to the views of those alumni who have actively supported the Center, and we are pleased to offer the Committee any possible assistance to the end that our fellow alumni who lost their lives in the war may be commemorated...