Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directorial failing on the part of Mr. Hanson, an inability or unwillingness to eliminate exaggerated poses and gestures, the actors were generally only slightly less than adequate. Frederick Blais as the father, and head of the Stanhope family, suffered most from this failing and played his part on too high a level from the beginning. This left him no room for growth of emotional intensity in the final scene, where he finally resorted to uncontrolled hysteria. Richard Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody...
...general sessions to be held at the Business School, other phases of high school administrative and educational problems will be discussed by such speakers as Lester W. Nelson, treasurer of The Fund for the Advancement of Education, Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions at Harvard College, and Matthew P. Gaffney, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education...
...high point was perhaps the solo piano presentation of the slow movement theme. The melody is the simplest series of conjunct scale fragments, but so tellingly contoured that in the hands of a great artist it emerges as one of the most ineffably seraphic passages in all music. It points up the fact that the profoundest statements may be uttered by the simplest means. Complexity is not the sure road to great...
...tightens. Their space-age industries can run into rugged shake-outs-just as most other industries have in the past. This means that only those with the wisest managers, the sharpest scientists and the biggest bankrolls will come through. Even for those, the prices of the stocks are so high that investors are, in effect, paying on the basis of what a company will earn years hence...
...HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING CORP. sprang from wartime research by M.I.T. Physicist Robert Van de Graaff. M.I.T. Engineer John Trump and British Engineer Denis M. Robinson. They started manufacturing Buck Rogers gear in a dreary Cambridge garage, moved to Route 128 in 1956. High Voltage now builds giant (three stories high) particle accelerators that can sterilize materials by firing a stream of electrons through them. The accelerators are also used for high-energy physics studies and for breaking down chromosomes to study their properties, may soon be used commercially to irradiate food so that it will keep for years without refrigeration...