Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, said yesterday that the staff of Eliot had discussed the problem "only tentatively." It is rather late now, he added, to consider the addition of several more staff members for the Fall. Additional housing space would be needed, and, with all the rooms in the Houses assigned, "it is a little hard," Finley said, "to see where the space will come from...
...system of non-Honors Senior tutorial "requires a good deal of thought and elaborate planning," John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, commented. The new program, he said, represents a significant change in University policy, and needs "a summer's thought to work out." The problem of housing space for additional tutors might be alleviated, he added, by drop-outs during the summer...
...mother thought he should be exposed to other teachers, but Van stubbornly refused. When he was 14, Mrs. Cliburn was taking master's classes at Juilliard, and Olga Samaroff,* a famed teacher at the school, offered Van a scholarship. But Pianist Samaroff died before he could start, and he refused to study with anybody else. In one volcanic scene with his mother, he threatened to give up the piano entirely if he was forced to go through with the Juilliard plans ("I always threatened her with that whenever she tried to give me away to another teacher"). They moved...
...from the time he was accepted until he left for Moscow, Van shut himself away in his tiny Manhattan apartment on 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall and spent six to eight hours a day at his quilt-covered Steinway practicing the staggering repertory each entrant was expected to master. Plagued with colitis, he dutifully went in for dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends. When he left...
Peerless on Earth. For the opera house, Old Master Wright designed "a glorification of acoustics, making of it a poetic circumstance." A mighty crescent rises out of lagoons to the apex of the combined opera house and civic auditorium. Beneath the auditorium is a planetarium; on top, a crenelated cupola housing "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." Close by, soars a towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened...