Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children each morning in The King...
...Christian will not contain much that is new for those who have passed through the illuminating fires of Hum 5 or Phil 1b. But the apalling atavistic rites that drew earnest millions to Madison Square Garden last summer, and the pietistic claptrap emanating constantly from the White House indicate that Russell's rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer...
...pleasant tuning-up hum of the Philharmonia Orchestra faded away and a hush fell over London's Royal Festival Hall. A tall, slightly stooped figure in a frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...much longer, the pressure of alumni sentiment will probably make it as permanent a fixture as Memorial Hall. Lamont librarians must act fast in removing it; its benign presence is fast becoming as pernicious a part of the library's spell as the bright oak wood-work and the hum of the fluorescent lights...
Rankings of the top ten courses are Ec 1, 635; Hum 2 and Math 1a, 526 each; Hum 5, 483 Soc Sci 1, 459; Comp Lit 166, 430; English 123, 364; Chem 1, 356; History 169, 345; and Government...