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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash-priority psychology, which often achieves spectacular results, also produced absurdities. Though lavish, laboratory equipment is apt to be overengineered, clumsy and wasteful. Says a British physicist of one laboratory: "The men in charge just sat down with a catalogue and ordered whatever they wanted. There was one fine electron-microscope that they said they hadn't gotten around to using yet, though it had been there a year...
...tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold on the front page...
Conductor Steinberg did as much teaching as judging. He went on the theory that all conductors are wrapped in conceit ("The degree of conceit among conductors is enormous, even in beginners"), and often cut them down so adroitly that, as one contestant put it, he "demolished your authority entirely, right in front of the orchestra." Most frequently. Steinberg jumped on the contestants for exaggerated gestures. When he spotted a shoulder-to-waist stroke, he would inquire acidly: "Are you a windmill?" Contestants soon learned that a 3-in. flick of the baton before the sensitive Liverpool Philharmonic could...
...another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing and coloring underwater. He uses a waterproof Japanese oil-base pastel stick on a specially coated paper often stiffened with spar varnish to keep it from wrinkling...
...Catholicism and look at it more sympathetically than he did in the past." The Protestants, he said, are also growing more and more interested in liturgy, increasingly using candles, the cross, vestments, stained glass, "and even statues." Catholic rites are no longer despised as "popish idolatry." and Protestants often visit Catholic churches "to see how the liturgy is to be performed...