Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schippers transferred from a Kalamazoo high school to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at 14. At first, he studied organ and piano. But he got a chance to conduct the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in a student contest, and that changed his mind. He worked as a coach for the singers during the rehearsals of Menotti's Consul, got his chance to direct it after the opera had already opened on Broadway...
Suddenly it stops and stares, and a little, tonguelike organ in the center of the dish vibrates with fierce excitement. Somewhere, far beyond human sight, it has spotted an enemy jet diving down from the edge of space at close to the speed of sound. It stares intently for a second or so; then with a roar of gears and motors, the gun springs to life. While its carriage whirls and its tube swings upward, the radar still stares at the target. It acts uncannily like a hunter who squats in his blind and watches the sky for ducks. When...
Times have changed for the brick building at 207 East 30th Street. Manhattan, that was once the Adams Memorial Presbyterian Church. The stained-glass windows are bricked up, the pews are gone, and in place of the organ there is a glass-fronted control room which bristles with switches, plugs and dials. Instead of such rousing hymns as Onward! Christian Soldiers and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, the old building resounded this week to the throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde...
...Miller said, is "whether a relationship may exist between man and society which does not leave him less that he was, with aborted personality, essentially alone or even crushed . . . whether a man can not become more aware, more sensitive, instead of narrowing into a tool of survival and an organ of defensiveness...
...American people voted for anything besides Ike on November 4th, it was for a change in the State Department. Eight years of bungling and timidity by the striped-pants snobocracy had left state with the lowest reputation of any government organ. So it was with high hopes that we watched the installation of a new Secretary, and listened to his assurances of reform. But last week's amazing revelations of sabotage in the Voice of America division prove the "cleanup" in high places to be a hollow mockery...