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...words stand out. Poet Ronald Duncan's libretto had plenty of words-a male & female chorus moralized throughout-but it had too little to say and too little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...
...darkened grade-school auditorium in Miamisburg, Ohio, parents and pupils sat on the edge of their seats. On the stage, a white ping-pong ball, shot from a gun, struck a cluster of red and green balls. Lights flashed and the cluster split in two. At the drop of another ball, scores of other fluorescent ping-pong balls started dancing and popping around in a cage. In this entertaining way, the Monsanto Chemical Co., which ran atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge until early this year, demonstrated the principles of atomic fission and a chain reaction...
...Manhattan) were medical men. Public health men, said Dr. J. R. Heller of the U.S. Public Health Service, have learned much from the book. The PHS will aim its antivenereal disease campaigns at parts of the population which Kinsey believes to be most sexually active (those with only grade-school education). PHS will also adopt Kinsey's interview techniques in tracking down sources of venereal disease...
...know, no proof of this statement has been advanced, and, if a choice were to be made, reading and writing are the aspects of a language which the overwhelming majority of university students have occasion to use and enjoy. . . . It is reasonable to suppose that a grade-school pupil of average memory and unimpaired hearing would derive as much benefit from the Army method as anyone else, and if a grade-school pupil could do it, it's not university work! ARTHUR S. BATES University of Wyoming Laramie...
...years as counsellor for Veterans behind him. After leaving his Indiana high school, Bender worked at various jobs on the New York Central, including section hand and caller of crews for departing trains. For two years he went to Goshen College; then followed a stint as a grade-school teacher, before his arrival at Harvard...