Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet this objection, Drs. Calvin and Sogo cooled their apparatus down to - 140°C., close to the temperature of liquid air, so that electron-yielding chemical reactions could not happen. Then they placed deep-frozen chlorophyll in a magnetic field and shot extremely high-frequency radio waves through it. When strong light was shone on the chlorophyll, some of the radio energy was absorbed. This proved to Dr. Calvin that chlorophyll exposed to sunlight contains free electrons, and is therefore capturing light energy by the layer-to-layer method. Nature's green plants. Dr. Calvin believes, have turned...
...rest of the picture, involving about 90 minutes more of the customer's time and pretty nearly $3,000,000 of the producer's money, is written to the thesis that Audrey Hepburn is really just a dud who can happen to wear duds. It's a hard one to prove. Actress Hepburn not only looks her limpid best from first to last; she also does some snazzy dancing (she is better solo than with Astaire), and even sings effectively in a sort of absinthetic Sprechstimme with a touch of wood alcohol in the low notes...
...concert concluded with the late Anton Webern's Three Songs, Opus 23 (1934), excellently sung by Sarah Jane Smith. In them Webern applied his own refined pointillism to the atonal technique of Schonberg, with dubious success. I happen still to be old-fashioned enough to think that the human voice should not be asked to do everything an instrument can do. I find this disjunct kind of vocal writing, in which there are only angles instead of lines, highly ungrateful. The chief interest in these songs for me lies in rhythmic precision; and this in turn is best achieved...
...decide the fate of the Reading Periods, there is some chance the program will be done away with entirely. Certainly the abuse of the Reading Period system in the past, and both students and faculty members are guilty, would justify abandoning it altogether, but we hope this does not happen. The idea of Reading Period is sound; its faulty execution is what ruins it. If professors would point their curriculum so as to culminate in two or three weeks of either intensive, high-level study of extant course material or individual study of new material related to the course, Reading...
...route just as an alert photographer recorded this historic moment of truth (see cut) for posterity. Gwen nervously shifted her white mink stole, swung her evening bag against an onlooker. The bag flew open and coins, handkerchief and vanity poured to the floor. "Isn't this what would happen when I come to a Perle Mesta party?" Gwen remarked, scooping up the debris. But then Perle, good sport that she is, turned back, shook hands with Gwen, who swept away to celebrate the short-lived truce on the dance floor...