Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With breezy informality, Mr. Kimball brings the operatic stage to you for your pleasure. Without its mothballs and sometimes outdated traditions, the music and action take on new life and dramatic power." This introduction is typical of those to be found in the fall course catalogue for the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, a twelve-year-old information bazaar housed in William Brattle's 294-year-old manse next to the Brattle Hall Theater...
...addition to its course on "Enjoying Opera," the Adult Education Center this fall will offer classes encompassing over 60 other topics. Ranging from the "A B C's of Investments" to "Life Drawing," these topics will attract nearly 1300 adult students from within a 30-mile radius of Cambridge...
...something of a benevolent tyrant who at 70 still dictates the personal as well as business affairs of his large family. The time is then 1939, and for the remainder of the evening "I Know My Love" shuttles back and forth through the years of the Chanler's married life--1888, 1902, 1918, and 1920--to reveal that it has been a polite but continual war and that it is Emily Chanler who is the stronger and the victorious...
...Life on the student boats was unique. It was a bit like a college campus set afloat: the ships' bulletin boards were plastered with notices beginning "Meeting of World Federalists . . .", "All Ohioans interested in working for the defeat of Senator Taft . . .", and, coming home, "Ride to Chicago wanted--Share Expenses...
...occasions when he is known to have indulged in spontaneous human sentiments. In later years he was not to waste much time with such "silly longings." As portrayed in Isaac Deutscher's painstakingly researched and austerely written biography, Stalin has spent most of his life cultivating a steel fagade and suppressing any public sign of human frailty or fraternity-proper training for a modern dictator with pretentions to omniscience...