Word: plain
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...plain fact is, that of these three areas for independent study, only the thesis succeeds as such. Both tutorial and course reduction fall short of real independent study--although they certainly may succeed in other ways--because they are inevitably bucking three facts about education at Harvard. Two of these concern Harvard, and one concerns education...
...mesons," decay into three pi mesons; others, called "theta K mesons," decay into only two pi mesons. For mathematical reasons which physicists can explain only to other physicists, this inconsistent behavior seemed to violate the sacred parity principle. What could be done about it? The experimental evidence was plain, but it was hard to accept. It was as if science found evidence of a material that is repelled rather than attracted by gravitation...
Today, Mrs. Tunnicliff has a volunteer teaching and medical staff of seven, branch clinics in Lynn, Springfield. Lowell, Jamaica Plain, Lawrence and Merrimac. Her approach does not involve elaborate psychiatric techniques. It relies mostly on developing in each pupil control and coordination...
...origins were simple-his father was a poor Parma tailor-but his genius was plain in childhood. He never wanted to be anything but a musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history...
Eternal Secrets. Listening to a Toscanini performance contained the same element of surprise as looking at the original of a painting after knowing it only in copies and prints. Faded colors suddenly leaped to life; obscured details became plain; disjointed lines and phrases connected up. No contemporary could match his subtlety of nuance-the exquisite tenderness, the sweetness, the purity; nor could anyone equal his passion and force. Somehow, when the score demanded it, he seemed to coax a bigger volume of sound from a given number of instruments; he could also reduce the same number to a greater degree...