Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanished Blandness. After the stones flew, most of Peru was embarrassed; NIXON STONED IN PERU headlines contrasted markedly with the fun-and-games note of his visits earlier in the week to Paraguay and Bolivia. Lima's Foreign Ministry sent Nixon its regrets, and the San Marcos Student Federation condemned the attack as "barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better...
...public schools, a citizens' committee issued a report giving them generally good marks in math and science, mixed reviews on a conglomerate English program called "language arts." After a startled glance at the history setup in the city's high schools, the committee observed: "We note with regret that World History is no longer required, however valuable the course in 'Contemporary Problems' may be. It is difficult to see how students can give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign-language teaching starts out well, ends badly: "The elective...
...number of American musicians touring, they will dominate the European musical scene. In 1952 Pianist Fleisher won first place at Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against far tougher competition than Cliburn faced in Russia. In 1956 Pianist Browning (a Leventritt Award winner in 1955) came within a sixteenth note of taking first in the same competition, finally took second to Russia's Ashkenazy. This summer there are even two other Texas pianists-Ivan Davis, 25, who won first place at last month's Naples competition, and James Mathis, 24. And at the Tchaikovsky Competition itself, U.S. Artists...
However, an ominous note was sounded yesterday as star goalie Dick MacKinnon suffered "a possible shoulder separation" and may be forced to miss the game. If he is unable to play, Chris Stone will take his place...
...arches, vaults and niches. The apostles and bishops attending the Virgin Mary have the mien and carefully draped robes of the Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against a sky of gold. On the adjacent shell a note of nature observed, and of warmth and intimacy, warms the usually remote hieratic figures of the Nativity, and the manger animals, reduced to the size of toys, are almost playful...