Word: master
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Faculty members of the committee are Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House; Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Charles A. Whitney, professor of Astronomy; Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology; Harold Amos, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; and John F. Kain, associate professor of Economics...
Intellectuals should learn to master the art of dissent within government, a problem that has greatly changed since the days of Thomas More and Machiavelli. James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes...
...College of Music both rejected him as too old to enroll in conducting courses, so he practiced with amateur orchestras around London. When he approached Sir Adrian Boult, the doyen of British conductors, Boult offered to become his patient if he would stick to medicine. Instead, Bialoguski took a master class in conducting with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy. Eventually, Boult let Bialoguski rehearse the New Philharmonia in Beethoven's Prometheus overture. He did so well that the orchestra agreed to last week's concert...
...acquisition by U.C.L.A.'s Grunwald Arts Foundation of some 650 prints from the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright. With this as a nucleus, U.C.L.A. commissioned Orientalist Harold P. Stern, assistant director of Washington's Freer Gallery of Art, to assemble a comprehensive survey of Japanese master prints and to write an accompanying book...
...children love and give-to each other-in the explicitly sexual writhings of Rudolf Nureyev and Antoinette Sibley. The hard-working Saturday kids are a vivacious corps of high-leaping male dance students finally practiced into exhaustion by a starchy, cane-wielding sergeant major of a ballet master...