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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common at concerts of contemporary music, the performances were often a good deal better than the works peformed, although every composer on the roster was a "big name." Still, half the program offered music of high quality...
...Revitalized Life. With his begging bowl in hand, Jerm was informed that he could eat only what he had collected in one morning and was not allowed to save food. He was assigned to a companion and a tutor from among the professional priests and was told his priestly name-Suwanno, meaning gold. After he stated that he was a human being (because, in the Buddha's time, legend has it that a snake in human form was once ordained), Jerm formally became a priest...
...that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name of art is one of the worst threats that artists face...
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Périchole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight...
...working life, Harold Churchill figured that the way to compete was to produce an "ideal" small car, but it took him many years to do it. He got into Studebaker 33 years ago as a half-trained engineer (two years at Western Michigan University), gained a name as "the guy who did everything." He was one of the three men who engineered the "economy" '39 Champion (priced as low as $675). During the war he began turning out the famed tanklike Weasel for the U.S. just 50 days after the company got the order. He filed more than...