Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reykjavik Isaac Stern wowed his audience-he had to repeat his recital in the 800-seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...
Academic Breakthrough. The weekly two-hour seminar is merely the showpiece of much previous hard work and organization. Said one second-year law student: "Discussion is only the top of the iceberg." In one or two of 15 subcommittees, each student puts in ten to 15 hours weekly analyzing the press, books and documents (e.g., Britain's white papers on defense, the 1954 U.S. budget), writing discussion papers on specific subjects (e.g., U.S. manpower requirements, tactical air power). A six-student team is appointed to prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they...
...ever bought men," has no real objection to the barter system. But she isn't satisfied with her earthy life. It's never exactly clear why, except that she yearns to be "a really good actress," so she goes to Hollywood. Then everyone decides that Maria is really an iceberg and incapable of love, or of being loved. This fixed as her real trouble, the picture goes along its sententious way, proving that wealth and fame don't mean a thing if you're not happy, and that you've got to have true love to be happy...
...cases which line its walls are only the outward aspect of the Museum's role in the University and in the study of anthropology. The Museum is far loss purely antiquarian and far more complex than it-may appear to most of its casual Sunday visitors. Like the figurative iceberg, mot of Peabody lies below the surface...
...delegates listened in iceberg silence to President Eisenhower's greeting (sent by mail, special delivery, not by presidential emissary), gave Secretary of Labor Mitchell and Secretary of State Dulles meager applause. In contrast, they stomped and whooped in approval as Minnesota's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert H. Humphrey charged that under Eisenhower "money-changers have invaded the temple of democracy . . . modern-day pirates have hoisted a new Jolly Roger over Washington." Among the convention's 64 resolutions was one blasting the Administration and urging stepped-up politicking by the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Reuther called...