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Forster, the gifted, intelligent observer of a nation, is thus cut from the play, but Santha Rama Rau has nearly solved the problem of his absence by an unbelievably skillful job of compressing and condensing his views into the speeches of her characters. Her play has shed much of his...

Author: By Joseph L. Fratherstone, | Title: A Passage to India | 1/15/1962 | See Source »

Before he sits down to play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran Prodigy | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

The grants are intended to encourage gifted students to enter college teaching, and are given to graduate schools with the stipulation that three-fourths of the money be used for fellowships to students beyond the first year of graduate school. The Foundation grants fellowships directly to students only for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foundation Gives $196,000 Grant To University | 1/9/1962 | See Source »

If the current exhibition does nothing else, it will have served a useful purpose in reintroducing Bresdin. He had microscopes for eyes. In his Holy Family Beside a Rushing Stream, the three figures sit in a dense forest in which the smallest branch of the smallest tree can be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealism's Fathers | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

One of the most famous fictitious pieces of music in all literature is the "Vinteuil theme" described by Marcel Proust in Remembrance of Things Past. Explored and dissected for pages, the theme not only prodded Proust's memory but also helped preserve the memory of Venezuela-born Composer Reynaldo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Remembrance of Reynaldo | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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