Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melody has a folklike origin: Donnie heard it sung by an Ohio State girl friend, who had picked it up on the campus. Donnie worked it out on his guitar, changed it a bit, wrote some lyrics, sang it at parties, and prudently got it copyrighted. Six months ago, Cleveland Disk Jockey Phil McClean played a home recording of it on the air. After that, about 20 requests for it came in to station WERE every week. A brand-new record company ("Triple A") grabbed it for its first release, quickly sold 21,000 copies around Cleveland, then leased...
...liberty" by reading the works of Lord Acton and De Tocqueville. Then, in Renaissance literature, they will be concerned with the development of the individual, and later, when they get into the Reformation, with the individual in relation to God. Their biology may begin with Darwin's Origin of Species, their psychology with the writings of Pavlov; their physics will include the works of Von Helmholtz. Even their foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas-Voltaire in French, Cervantes in Spanish, Dante in Italian...
...work, "Tite and the Cominform," is a study of the origin, development and purpose of the Yugoslavian cominform and the reasons for the Solar break with Russia in 1948. The book was published last April by the University Press...
...takes a hardy man to predict the future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past...
...Aliens or Exchange Visitors (like Harvard's P-124) may not change their visas to any other type without first returning to their country of origin. Formerly they could go to Canada or Mexico for such a change...