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...science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet scientific establishment...
...Lest the movie sound rarefied, it should be added that The Magic Flute is a wonderful bit of sorcery, passionate, elegant and lighthearted. Anyone with a cultural prejudice against opera, a suspicion of its loftier excesses, will be immediately disarmed. Opera fans will be delighted. And audiences who are simply looking for a good movie will find in The Magic Flute the most beguiling offering of the year...
...anyone who follows Harvard's teams is probably walking around Cambridge mumbling something like, "Beat Brown" or "Bring on the Elis." But lest we forget in these Indian summer days, another hockey season is taking shape down at chilly Watson Rink...
...years at the Infantry Academy in Zaragoza, the Prince was sent for a year each to the Naval School at Marin and the Air Academy at San Javier. Armed with commissions in all three services, Juan Carlos began his civilian education at the University of Madrid in 1960. Lest he be tempted by what his father called "the tra-la-la of Madrid," however, he was cloistered once again, this time 30 miles from the capital, with a retinue of chaperons that included two dukes, three colonels and a personal chaplain...
...Tutor. In the play, freedom is metaphorically equal to sexual license, so when the lecherous tutor castrates himself, Brecht's message is clear; this misguided soul, in his anxiousness to retain his livelihood, has performed an unnatural act, just like the German intellectuals who kowtowed to Hitler. Lest we construe Brecht's meaning too narrowly, however, he reminds us, in a line emblazoned on the set, that his aim is "to illumine all our sorry state, not only that of Germany." What this production does best, however--in fact, about the only thing it does well--is to illumine...