Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some three weeks, a team of workmen from Zandamm, Holland, whom simply no one could understand, assembled the new modern classical organ over at Busch-Reisinger Museum. An auspicious event for music lovers and musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...
...Europe," builder Dirk Flentrop explained to an admiring host, "we don't take customers to see our work. We take them to an organ built two hundred years ago. 'See, it still works!' we say. The old way is the best way .... Logic, not electricity...
...Biggs is ready to play," said an authoritative voice and everyone trooped to folding chairs facing the organ. The notes struck, proud and singing, from the compact, shiny instrument as Biggs played works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (appropriately enough), Franck, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bach...
...Summer School administration made much of its varied extracurricular offering, and was extremely concerned with public relations. Its immediate organ of publicity was the Harvard Summer News, published weekly for the School by editors of the CRIMSON, with aid from transient journalists in the Summer School. Since the News was published essentially as an organ of the School, it conformed--as much as it could--to its restrictions. The sensitive administration disliked controversy; thus a story on reactions or Arkansan students to the large primary victory of Orval Faubus was banned by the School on the grounds that it might...
Hobby Into Career. The prospect of such spectacular savings in flight training was what spurred Ed Link to invent his first trainer more than 30 years ago while working in his father's piano-and-organ factory in Binghamton, N.Y. Link, whose hobby was flying, saw the need for a training device that would prepare flyers for flying before they had to take a real plane into the air. He and his brother George put together a plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour...