Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French organ program was given in Memorial Church last night by Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist and Organist of the Summer School. In keeping with the French tradition of "historical concerts," she covered over two centuries of composition, starting with Baroque works by Couperin, de Grigny and Clerambault...
...century, the French nation has taken more eagerly and seriously to organ composition than any other in the world. Mrs. Pardue consequently performed four recent works. Improvisatoy bombast characterizes the Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...
...Organ Recitals in the Memorial Church on Wednesday Evenings...
Last week Ryan Reporter, house organ of Ryan Aeronautical Co., reported a solution worked out by the Douglas Aircraft Co. for use on the new DC-8 Jetliner. Loose objects on the ground are not inhaled directly by the great flood of air passing through an engine, Douglas engineers found. Instead, a vortex like a small tornado forms below and just ahead of the engine's intake. If anything loose is within its reach, the vortex lifts it up like a house in a Kansas twister. Then the main air stream grabs it and hurls it into the engine...
Adzhubei's appointment is no nepotistic caper. At 34 he is one of Russia's most talented journalists; as editor, he pumped readability into Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist youth organ, by ordering firsthand factual reporting on the Russian scene, crusading against erring officials (e.g., a garage manager who had wrongly fired a worker). He helped to push Komsomolskaya Pravda's circulation from 1.500,000 five years...