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...evening of music which made demands on the attention not usually required of an audience, Christion Wolff's music was perhaps the hardest to grasp. There were two pieces, both for two pianos, the second running almost 15 minutes. From the surface of the music it is easy enough to catalogue the extensions of Webern's devices: only a few notes are played at a time; these are usually very soft (or else very loud); there is constant preoccupation with color: most of the music is very high or low, piano strings are plucked with the fingers, there are elaborate...
Professor Paul Tillich came to the U.S. in 1933 and gave up building sand castles. But he has succeeded in erecting a towering structure of thought from which he currently commands the littoral of theology. The concepts which are his raw material may be as hard to grasp and hold as a handful of dry sand, but the edifice he has built with them is densely packed and neatly shaped against the erosion of intellectual wind and wave...
...message of Christianity is not Christianity, but a New Reality. A New state of things has appeared, it still appears; it is hidden and visible, it is there and it is here. Accept it, enter into it, let it grasp...
With a first division League finish almost out of its grasp, the Crimson quintet will move on the road this weekend in hopes of defeating Penn tonight and Princeton tomorrow. Added to a victory over Yale next Wednesday, two wins would give the varsity a good shot at fourth place, much higher than was expected at the season's outset...
...Close to Discrimination." Khrushchev was in top form on the last day. Labeling Western leaders "dealers in blood, merchants of death," he demanded that "generals who think the U.S. would remain invulnerable in the event of another war should come out of their fool's paradise," and grasp that "coexistence is the paramount task of our time." "We shall win," he cried, "but we'll let you live...