Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conquered the Sudan in 1820 and began 60 years of maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
...Michigan. He calls himself a visiting professor of energetic geometry, and lectures to graduate students in architecture at M.I.T., as almost everywhere, with success. Since most teachers in America operate on narrow gauge and have strictly limited switching faculties in the world of cognition, Bucky is an inspiring Messiah to the type of youth that wants to be told the relationship between a triangle and quantum mechanics, and cannot find anyone else willing or able to make the connection...
...Christmas season is officially here. Its usual harbinger, Handel's Messiah, received last night the kind of performance it always deserves. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth, played the Christmas section of the oratorio with freshness and reverence...
Handel's "Messiah" opens the Christmas concert season at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Sanders. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will conduct the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Cheral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in part. I, the Christmas portion of the work...
Soloists for the "Messiah" are Davits G. Barnhense '33 and Paul Curaim Oscar Bemy '32 and Paul Tibbeffs the latter will known local professional Pickets for the performances tonight and forma now are still available at the Coop