Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate successors seemed anxious to move it back to America. The first big geographical jump came in 1887, when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought him to London in the guise of Sherlock Holmes. Like Dupin, Holmes was an intellectual athlete, and socially he was a marvel of mobility, at home with scholars, society bluebloods, police inspectors. "Holmes," wrote Social Historian David Bazelon, "despite his eccentricities, is essentially an English gentleman acting to preserve a moral way of life." From Dickens' unfinished teaser, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to the 20th century whimsy of Dorothy L. Sayers, crime was cleaned...
Symphony. The New York Philharmonic returned in triumph from its ten-week, ANTA-sponsored tour of Europe and the Near East, was greeted at Carnegie Hall with a red carpet, laurel-draped boxes, and placards reading "Welcome Home, International Heroes!" All told, the orchestra had played a brain-fogging total of 50 concerts in 29 cities of 17 countries. Unfortunately, the pace showed. The program was one that Bernstein and crew had played repeatedly in Europe: Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture and Triple Concerto (with Lenny conducting from the piano), Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Conductor Bernstein gave...
...victory cannot be far," sang the somber chorus. "The world then becomes a Red star." The tumid cantata swelled across the famed campus; Communist Germany's goat-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done to it made him proud. Since 1953, Leipzig University has been called Karl-Marx University, "model of the socialist type of university." Last week Leipzig, which took six centuries to build, was a model of how to kill a great institution in six years...
When Kao got back home last year, he wrote Abdel advising him to find a school and get to work at his studies. Abdel picked out the Protestant-supported American Mission School for Boys, and Kao arranged to get him admitted this fall. Kao flew back to Cairo this summer, laid out Abdel's four-year curriculum. It was stiff: four years of English and French, two of German, four years of science (including theoretical physics), four years of math (including calculus). "I did not lead the boy to think that everything was now taken care of," says...
Midway Island is the happy home of 645,000 albatrosses-about 35% of the world population of the Laysan species and 16% of the black-footed species. Difficulty is, Midway is also the home of a major air facility of the U.S. Navy, and the place is not big enough for both bird and plane. Last week the U.S. Navy decided that the troublesome albatross must...