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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side is doing fine," said Nikita Khrushchev in East Berlin last week. "We have put the enemy on the defensive, and that's the main thing...
...main use of the films is in the Business School. The case method of teaching initiated by the school lends itself naturally to movies, especially in cases involving personal relations...
Student apathy largely prevents the Dining Hall Department from fully satisfying the undergraduates it serves. Few people ever bother to visit the Central Kitchen, the main bakery, or the various House pantries. But the opportunity is there, and the kitchen administrators welcome visitors. Tours through the food preparation complex--an enlightening experience to say the very least--will be given any group that contacts the Dining Hall management in advance. Members of the Student Council roamed through the kitchen this Fall, and most of them expressed amazement at the problems which the Dining Hall Department faces as a matter...
...tempered scale set in a particular order by the composer. Once he picks a row, he can manipulate it in countless ways and at the same time avoid any suggestion of tonality, since each note is equal, i.e. none of them is emphasized as tonality emphasizes its main tone, its resting point. A substantial part of the system's appeal to composers lies in its highly organized nature: the destruction of the complex system of tonal relations seems to demand another complicated set of rules. Schoenberg, the twelvetone pioneer, set up such a system, but curiously enough he retained much...
...Texas Democrat also termed the loyalty oath amendments to the National Defense Education Act as "secondary to the main objective of the bill," and a necessary compromise to get it passed. He was co-author of the bill's college loan provisions...