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From that point on, Pusey asserted and re-asserted his theory of the University as an instrument of social change through its individuals, while the Council members pleaded for its use as a corporate social instrument. Stanley Hoffmann expressed the Council's position best when he said that the "rules of the game" which the University upholds tend to preserve the status...
FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week) 2. Topaz, Uris (2) 3. Christy, Marshall (3) 4. The Instrument, O'Hara (5) 5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8) 6. Vanished, Knebel (9) 7. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4) 8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (7) 9. The Chosen, Potok (6) 10. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean...
...unmatched 40,000 hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything I can get my hands on. I sneak out pretty near every night with some of the boys and make an instrument approach in a DC-8 or Boeing 727. There's nothing against that, as long as it isn't a scheduled flight...
...Instrument, O'Hara...
Flying Sparks. Like his music, Nielsen's temperament blended traditional peasant qualities with a progressive sophistication and disenchantment. Born on the bucolic island of Fyn, he made his first "instrument" from various lengths of cordwood, which he banged with a hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his father, a house-painter-laborer who played at village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony...