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...look up, and think you see everything, but then you look up a few minutes later and everything is changed." The piece has a kind of hypnotic fascination; still I would tend to agree with Foss that it is not a piece of music. It is quite a pleasant thing to listen to, in the way that some Muzak is not unpleasant, but it is hardly inspired...
Take Mass, Ave to Alewife Brook Parkway and follow to Interstate 93 Go north in a pleasant drive, forty minutes away is Rockingham Park and some fine racing...
...Ballet Theatre ("American" was added in 1956), the company prospered from the start; one reason was that with Europe at war, New York had become the refuge of a staggering array of imported talent. Backed by the millions of Philanthropist and sometime Dancer Lucia Chase, Founding Director Richard Pleasant was able to put together an opening season with a roster that read like a Who's Who of the dance world. Michel Fokine, Anton Dolin and Antony Tudor were among the choreographers; Dolin, Dimitri Romanoff, Adolph Bolm and Nina Stroganova were among the principal dancers. This illustrious list...
...Pleasant and Unpleasant. National Assessment was set in motion in 1963 by Francis Keppel, then U.S. Commissioner of Education. The data gathering began last year, and the project was taken over by the Education Commission of the States, whose membership includes governors, legislators and state school officials. So far, the program has cost $7,000,000, most of it funded by the U.S. Office of Education and the Carnegie Corporation...
...reviewers to comment freely on the science report. Most expressed cautious hope that the country's schools will take a hard look at the results and sharpen their teaching accordingly. But one commentator, Curriculum Consultant Dr. Richard J. Merrill of California, livened his remarks with a list of "Pleasant and Unpleasant Surprises." A sampler of the Unpleasant: "Only 38% of nines and 49% of adults could time ten swings of a pendulum. Only 41% of 17s and 45% of adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei are more dense than the rest...