Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the execution of ex-Premier Imre Nagy and General Pal Maleter, the most atrocious of the many broken promises made by the Russians, will strike a note of realization in the minds of our recent "peace walkers"-the promise of the Russians to suspend future nuclear tests should be taken with a grain of salt...
Nadia Boulanger, recently in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, said of them: "These artists refuse every kind of temptation--searching for effect, facile emotion and egoism. They have attempted distribution of light and shade without diminishing the importance of a note, a rest, a rhythm, or a line. The manner in which they have attained their objectives brings back the memory of Pugno and Eugene Ysaye...
...make a little progress toward peace ran into a squall. Over the course of months, the U.S. had patiently managed to get the Russians to agree to hold an East-West scientists' conference on nuclear-test detection. Time: this week. Place: Geneva. But last week, in a surprise note phrased with deliberate ambiguity, the Russians threatened to boycott the conference unless the U.S. agreed in advance that the meeting's aim is a nuclear-test...
Educate Everybody. The report describes the other jaw of the paradox-that although a necessarily complex society often breeds mediocrity, it desperately needs brilliant performance. The U.S.'s need of top-level scientists and highly skilled teachers is obvious now, the authors note. The only occupation for which the need can be counted on not to increase is that of the unskilled laborer, who will be replaced, to some extent at least, by self-tended machines. The schools and colleges must train more people-the U.S. population is expected to grow 55 million by 1975-and, the report warns...
Composer Britten, a resident of Aldeburgh (pop. 2,689), likes to write for children-"They find my idiom easier than grownups do, and they don't argue with me. You never find a child saying, 'That note should be F natural.' " He recruited his 5-to 17-year-old chorus from three neighboring schools, gave them three months to learn their lines and six weeks to learn the music. What impressed him even more than their musical aptitude was their anxiety to please. Early in the rehearsal period, he spotted a small boy wearing a duck label...