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They cannot see - but they hunger to learn. A blind college physics student wants to know what is in a four-part book on quantum mechanics written in Greek, Latin, German and English. A sightless theologian needs to absorb Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man. A farmer must learn the contents of Modern Fruit Science. An aspiring salesman pleads to know The Five Great Rules of Selling...
...preparing to defend their city against Phillip of Macedon. Not only did Diogenes frisk it, jumble it, shuffle it, and huddle it, but he towled it, bewrayed it and unbunged it as well. All this action (set to music by Elliot Carter) was described with great enthusiasm by a four-part men's chorus while the 'Cliffies sat on the sidelines. In obedience to the score, the men chanted much of the time in tricky dotted rhythms, with no notes. Rhythms provide the main musical interest of the piece, and the chorus, under Elliot Forbes's careful direction, handled them...
...converts (100,000 last year) to a church once only known and derided for its long-banned polygamy. "The choir makes friends and opens doors," says Richard Condie, 65, choirmaster since 1957 and a professor of music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members are adult volunteers, including many housewives, but also four doctors, three lawyers, two bankers and one dentist-plus a glass blower and a hog caller...
What makes a perfect king? Shakespeare gave us his answer in Henry V. This play caps a four-part study of kingship in which we have portraits of three successive monarchs. In Richard II the playwright showed us a tragic and complex incompetent; in the two parts of Henry IV we have a competent king who cannot surmount the unlawful manner he secured the crown...
This is the third part of a four-part series on Integration and segregation in Chestertown, Maryland. The articles were filed from Chestertown last summer and were originally printed on the dates indicated in the Summer News. The articles recently won the Dana Reed Prize...