Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Max Rafferty, who calls himself a "conservative revolutionist," had hardly been sworn in last week as California's superintendent of public instruction when he let go with a bracing blast at the "pablumized" progressive education that he says afflicts California. If he has his way, Rafferty will bring about "nothing less than the philosophical-educational reorientation of the greatest state in the union...
Joining Mr. Barton in The Hollow Mockery are Mr. Max Adrian, who fancies he is amusing as an effeminate and disgusting ambassador of Henry VII; Miss Dorothy Tutin, who fancies she is an actress, and proceeds to read a sketch of the Kings of England by the fifteen-year-old Jane Austen as if it were the work of Baby Snooks; and Mr. Paul Hardwick, who is plain enough. Musical interludes are provided by Mr. James Walker, a harpsichordist,--Mr. Barton, luckily, seems to have been unable to devise a way of making the harpsichord funny--and by three gentlemen...
...passed since then has been deeply marked." Why keep anonymous this friend who has rendered such far-reaching service by his power of judgment and foresight, and who is indeed one of the most interesting figures in the history of contemporary literature? This friend is the author-philosopher Max Brod, who has also launched other writers on their way to fame, notably Franz Werfel, and Heinz Politzer himself, who as a young man listened reverently to Brod...
...Max Bondy, who had introduced coeducation in Germany. The Roepers joined him in Switzerland, where he and his wife opened a trilingual school; later they set up a U.S. branch (now the Windsor Mountain School, Lenox, Mass.); the Roepers then opened their own school in Detroit. In 1956, concerned about neglect of gifted kids, the Roepers decided to make it a place where "intellectual ability has prestige...
...bygone eras, sweeping stairways, ornate moldings and sparkling chandeliers graced the main lobbies of great concert halls, but such fusty amenities would never do for the austere lobby of Architect Max Abramovitz' new Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The three outside walls are simple glass arcades; on the inner wall run three balconies that make the space, which is 190 ft. by 25 ft., seem even longer than it is. Abramovitz from the beginning sensed the need for a sculpture that would "float in space and relate in a contemporary manner to the interior...