Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DELHI, India, Dec. 13--President Eisenhower leaves India tomorrow carrying away, in the words of Prime Minister Nehru, "a piece of our heart." Tonight, more than a million Indians massed to pay homage to Eisenhower and to hear him declare peace never will be realized until all mankind is free...
...performance by the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus will start the program at 6:45 p.m. in Christ Church. Following a 20-year-old tradition, students will then march to Agassiz carrying lighted candles to hear the retiring president speak...
...wanted to, since he speaks only one Indian language, Urdu, with any proficiency. Ordinarily he gives long, rambling, extemporaneous talks in English, full of digressions and schoolmasterly asides, that are translated into the local dialect by interpreters. Vast crowds of up to a million assemble to hear him, but the contact is more emotional than verbal. What happens is called by Indians darshan, communion. The multitude is somehow comforted and reassured not by the words but by the presence of Nehru. And Nehru himself seems to lose every trace of fatigue, becomes more alive, uninhibited and relaxed, and he returns...
...Berg's difficult twelve-tone piece, last played in Manhattan ten years ago. Moved by the death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week's audience warmly applauded Stern...
...hear some U.S. polemicists tell it, the goals of American education should match those of the Russians. Not so, warned Faust. The aims of Communist education are unquestioning obedience and technological specialization in the service of the state. The vastly different American ideal focuses on "the development of each individual's capacity to think for himself. We are convinced that every individual is entitled to discover or rediscover the truth for himself and that only as he makes the effort to do so can he really grasp it, truly understand it, and make it a part of himself...